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What, if anything, makes science a privileged path to knowledge?

SECTION A
1. What, if anything, makes science a privileged path to knowledge?
2. Is there one scientific method for all branches of science?
SECTION B
3. Who should decide what scientists research?
4. Does Kuhn or Popper give a more accurate description of science?
5. When, if ever, is it justifiable for scientists to make ad hoc hypotheses?
6. How should causation be distinguished from correlation?
7. Do observations of green emeralds confirm the hypothesis that all emeralds
are grue?
8. Are there any differences between social science and natural science?
9. What is a gene?
10. Does Hacking’s “experimental realism” give us grounds to trust what
modern physics says about unobservable entities?
11. Can induction be justified?
12. Should social and moral values have a role in the acceptance of scientific
hypotheses?