1 Should we believe in electrons?
2 What does scientific realism have to do with scientific rationality?
3 Either (a) Is there an account of laws of nature which tells us how
scientists are able to discover them?
Or (b) Is there any good sense in which a law of nature is
necessary?
4 Either (a) Assess the deductive-nomological model of explanation.
Or (b) ‘A satisfactory explanation is one that satisfies; nothing
more can or need be said.’ Discuss.
5 What is the tautology problem in the philosophy of biology? Is it really a
problem?
6 Either (a) Are equal a priori probabilities ever justified?
Or (b) ‘Probabilities cannot be subjective, since they coincide with
long-run relative frequencies.’ Discuss.
7 What do the paradoxes of confirmation tell us about evidence?
8 Is there an interesting difference between theory and observation?
9 Is Kuhn right that theory change is importantly non-rational?
10 Can a theory be falsified? Does it matter?