SECTION A
1. Should we trust scientific results?
2. What, if anything, unifies the sciences?
SECTION B
3. Should scientists reason via a process of inference to the best
explanation?
4. What, if anything, does Kuhn’s incommensurability threaten?
5. “Scientists always make inductive leaps, therefore science must be
value-laden.” Discuss.
6. What is the single biggest problem affecting Popper’s falsificationism?
Can it be solved?
7. Should there be any limits on freedom of research?
8. Are biological species the right sorts of things to have natures?
9. “Only biological organisms are capable of thought.” Do you agree?
10. Is science a special pursuit in virtue of its distinctive method or in virtue
of its social norms?
11. Is there a distinction to be made between the natural and social
sciences? Is it justified?
12. “The idea of time as passing is a relic from the age of classical physics.”
Discuss.