Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents

You are expected to have read and thoroughly learned the following texts:

• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-progress/

• Short overview: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9002756/Thomas-S-Kuhn
• Longer overview: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/
• Example of a paradigm shift a la Kuhn: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-261582/plate-tectonics#936104.hook

• Short definition: http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_positivism

• Extended overview: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/

• Short overivew: http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper

Additionally:

Use the Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy and Google to further explore concepts and ideas that we encounter.

Philosophy of Science with humor: http://www.science.gb.net/

Philosophy of Science hub: