In this week’s episode Patrick and Greg talk about creating collectible trading cards for some of our favorite philosophers of science and the impact each has had on how we think about the practice of research. Along the way, they also discuss goose mating calls, collapsed sinuses, Riverdance!, Comfortably Numb, Pikachu and Jigglypuff, the back of Andrea Howard’s car, pseudoscience, ad hoc immunizing maneuvers, Well duh, reading Greek or eating paste, leeches and trephining, young Turks, Bart Simpson, frictionless vacuums, Hungarian homeboy, middle kids, protective belts, zone coverage, crossing the bar, V1, and pissing people off.
Recommended Readings (primarily original works)
Cartwright, N. (1983). How the laws of physics lie. Oxford University Press.
Cartwright, N. (1989). Nature’s capacities and their measurement. Clarendon Press.
Cartwright, N. (1999). The dappled world: A study of the boundaries of science. Cambridge University Press.
Kuhn, T. S. (1957). The Copernican revolution: Planetary astronomy in the development of Western thought. Harvard University Press.
Kuhn, T. S. (1970). The structure of scientific revolutions (2nd ed.). University of Chicago Press.
Kuhn, T. S. (1977). The essential tension: Selected studies in scientific tradition and change. University of Chicago Press.
Lakatos, I. (1976). Proofs and refutations: The logic of mathematical discovery. Cambridge University Press.
Lakatos, I. (1978). The methodology of scientific research programmes: Philosophical papers: Volume 1 J. Worrall & G. Currie, Eds.). Cambridge University Press.
Lakatos, I. (1978). Mathematics, science and epistemology: Philosophical papers: Volume 2 J. Worrall & G. Currie, Eds.). Cambridge University Press.
Lakatos, I. (1970). Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes. In I. Lakatos & A. Musgrave (Eds.), Criticism and the growth of knowledge (pp. 91–196). Cambridge University Press.
Meehl, P. E. (1954). Clinical versus statistical prediction: A theoretical analysis and a review of the evidence. University of Minnesota Press.
Meehl, P. E. (1956). Wanted—a good cookbook. American Psychologist, 11, 263–272.
Meehl, P. E. (1978). Theoretical risks and tabular asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir Ronald, and the slow progress of soft psychology. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 46(4), 806–834
Mill, J. S. (1843). A system of logic, ratiocinative and inductive: Being a connected view of the principles of evidence and the methods of scientific investigation. John W. Parker.
Mill, J. S. (1973). A system of logic ratiocinative and inductive: Books I–III J. M. Robson, Ed.). University of Toronto Press. Original work published 1843
Mill, J. S. (1974). A system of logic ratiocinative and inductive: Books IV–VI and appendices J. M. Robson, Ed.). University of Toronto Press. Original work published 1843
Popper, K. R. (1945). The open society and its enemies: Vol. 1. The spell of Plato. Routledge.
Popper, K. R. (1945). The open society and its enemies: Vol. 2. The high tide of prophecy: Hegel, Marx, and the aftermath. Routledge.
Popper, K. R. (1959). The logic of scientific discovery. Basic Books. Original work published 1934
Popper, K. R. (1963). Conjectures and refutations: The growth of scientific knowledge. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Waller, N. G., Yonce, L. J., Grove, W. M., Faust, D., & Lenzenweger, M. F. (Eds.). (2006). A Paul Meehl reader: Essays on the practice of scientific psychology. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.