virtual workshop paper 3 (new deadline Tues 24 Nov)

Here are your Paper 3 topics.  Feel free to discuss here and help each other out. You can work together to discuss the material but need to write your own paper.  Note that you have to complete a Critical Thinking Worksheet on "Feminist Accounts of Science" and since you have to read in order to do that worksheet, you are halfway home on prompt #5.  Just saying'

Note that we won't discuss the end of the Evolution book until next week, so I'm extending the paper 3 deadline until next Tuesday 24th. 

1.   Explain why we are reading the Evolution book and how it illustrates at least two main ideas from chapter 5 "Scientific change and scientific revolutions" in the Very book. 

2. Using the "Popper" Companion entry and Chapter 1 of the Very book discuss the idea of string theory (you'll need to wait until after 7 Nov when we've finished watching the film).  Is string theory science?  Is it pseudo-science?  Is it neither?  What would Popper say?    I'm striking this option because we didn't read Popper.

3. Using the section "The problem of biological classification" in Chapter 6 of the Very book, and Chapter 10 of the Evolution book, explain what the philosophical problem of biological classification is, then explain whether and how scientists could solve the problem.  

4. Using section "Is science value free" of Very Chapter 7 and Chapter 12 of Evolution (specifically the section discussing E. O. Wilson), define sociobiology and then discuss whether you think it is too subjective to really be science.  

5. Using section "Is science value free" of Very Chapter 7, and the Companion readings "Feminist Accounts of Science" and "Values in Science" discuss whether or not (or to what degree) science is value free.  You might also want to refer back to earlier readings and lectures about the context of discovery vs. context of justification.