Fall 2020
watch together and discuss: Neil deGrasse Tyson on objective and subjective truth (Elon University convocation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K6dPq4Ad4k
Neil deGrasse Tyson, “What science is – and how and why it works” https://goo.gl/j1KQSK
William Wilson, “The myth of scientific objectivity” https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/11/the-myth-of-scientific-objectivity
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, preface to the B edition
Hegel, First lecture on proofs of the existence of God
Pinkard, Hegelian preliminaries
Lorraine Daston, “Objectivity and the escape from perspective”
Michael Friedman, “Epistemology in the Aufbau”
Leopold von Ranke, “On the character of historical science”
Carl Becker, “Detachment and the writing of history”
Thomas Kuhn, “Objectivity, value judgment and theory choice”
Helen Longino, “Values and objectivity” in Science as Social Knowledge
Heather Douglas, “The irreducible complexity of objectivity”
Postscript, I (the objective problem about the truth of Christianity)
Robert Adams, “Kierkegaard’s arguments against objective reasoning in religion”
G.E. Lessing, “On the proof of the spirit and of power”
Postscript, II.1, all of chapter 1 and half of chapter 2
Postscript, II.1, second half of chapter 2
Postscript, II.2, chapter 1
Postscript, II.2, chapter 2
Bernard Williams, “Knowledge, science, and convergence” in Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Hilary Putnam, “Bernard Williams and the absolute conception of the world”
Hilary Putnam, “Objectivity and the science/ethics distinction”
Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere (selections)