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April 2, 2023Which is more likely to be true: science or common sense?
Philosophy of Science
SECTION A
1 Which is more likely to be true: science or common sense?
2 What is the relationship between the philosophy of science and scientific
practice?
SECTION B
3 What do the paradoxes of confirmation teach us about how scientists test their
theories?
4 Either (a) Who comes closer to telling the truth about science: Popper or Kuhn?
Or (b) Does the fact that past scientific theories have been false give any
reason for saying that future scientific theories will be false as well?
5 What is the best solution to the problem of induction? Does it work?
6 Can scepticism about the external world be defeated?
7 Can the “Experimenters’ Regress” be avoided?
8 Is all scientific knowledge local?
9 “If the first object had not been, the second never had existed.” Is this a good
theory of causation?
10 Either (a) Critically assess the ‘Best System’ view of natural laws.
Or (b) What is the relationship between explanation and prediction?
11 Who should decide what scientific research to fund?
