(for my session on Formal
Modelling
see towards the bottom of the page)
Introductory Page About this Module
The MMUBS PoK Blog
- See this for all news, discussions up-to-date reading
suggestions: http://mmubs-pok.blogspot.com
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Sessions 2012-2013
Sessions 2011-2012
Sessions 2010-2011:
Early Sessions on
The Western Academic Tradition and Critical Thought- Induction, about argument [slides-ppt]
[slides-pdf] [for
printing-pdf]
- Critical Thinking - Authority and Dissent [slides-ppt] [slides-pdf] [for printing-pdf]
- Characteristics of Critical Thought [slides-ppt] [slides-pdf] [for printing-pdf]
- What is Philosophy? [slides-ppt] [slides-pdf] [for printing-pdf]
Older versions of slides:
- Critical thinking, I: About Argument [powerpoint slides]
- Thinking about the structure
and tradition of argument in the Western Academic Tradition
- Critical thinking, II: Authority and dissent, and the written word [powerpoint slides]
- Looking at the problem of
judging authority with particular respect to the written literature
- What is
Philosophy? [powerpoint
slides]
- An introduction to the MMUBS MRes philosophy course
- Rationalism vs.
Empiricism [powerpoint
slides]
- From where does knowledge come?
- Constructivism vs. Realism [powerpoint slides]
- Is knowledge a reflection of an outside reality or constructed by us?
- Positivism vs. Pragmatism [powerpoint slides]
- Is knowledge composed of a correct representation or what works in practice?
- The Linguistic
Turn [powerpoint
slides]
- To what extent is knowledge in the use of language rather than what language is about?
Reading List:
A Description of the Assignment:
Structured Feedback form for assignment:
Some OK Web Resources
- Stanford Dictionary of Philosophy
- Routledge Dictionary of
Philosophy Online, in particular:
- In our time Radio 4 discussions, in particular:
- Common Sense Philosophy - "There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it"
- Karl Popper - his ideas challenged our approach to the philosophy of science
- Relativism - the battle against transcendent knowledge
- Pragmatism - a practical philosophy fit for 20th century America
- Empiricism - the English philosophy?
- Wittgenstein - a philosophy of linguistics
- Logical Positivism
- Encyclopedia Brittanica, in particular:
- Another
reading
list for a similar course
Formal Modelling Session for the Specialist Methods Module
Contact Details for me, Bruce Edmonds:
- Position: Senior Research Fellow
- Department: Centre for Policy
Modelling
- Room: 2.11 (Opposite the faculty
office, next to the Computer Teaching Labs on the 2nd floor)
- Internal phone number: 6479
- External phone number: (0161) 247 6479
- Email: bruce@edmonds.name
- Web page: http://bruce.edmonds.name