Science and Interpretation in Social Theory PS: 333 Gary Herrigel Pick 423 tel.: 2-8067 email: herr@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu This course is designed to provide a general survey of contemporary thinking on the philosophy of natural and social science. It pays particular attention to problems surrounding interpretation, interpretive method and social construction. The requirements for the course are that students do all of the reading and participate actively in class discussions. This will count for at least half of the final grade. There will also be a take home midterm and final exam. Required Books: (available at Seminary Co-op & On Reserve at Regenstein) Charles Sanders Peirce, Peirce on Signs (Chapel Hill: UNC Press,) Roy Bhaskar, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation , (London: Verso, 1986) Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Magic, science, and the scope of rationality , (NY: Cambridge University Press, 1990) Ian Hacking, ed., Scientific Revolutions , (Oxford-Paper) Steve Fuller, Philosophy of Science and its Discontents , 2nd Edition, (New York: Guilford Press, 1993) M. Foucault The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 (New York: Vintage, 1980)-- Students are expected to read all of the readings assigned each week. You are not required to read the recommended readings. These are listed simply to provide you with a sense of the size of the universe in the topic area covered in each particular week.