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Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments, 2/e

Theodore Schick, Muhlenberg College
Lewis Vaughn

The Philosophical Enterprise

Theories

Thought Experiments
Thought Experiments (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thought-experiment/) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article



Thought Experiments (http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi576.htm) Article by John H. Lienhard (University of Houston)



How Can We Learn Anything from Thought Experiments? (http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/N-Q/phil/courses/312/16thoexp.htm) Notes from George Botterill (University of Sheffield)



Does Philosophy Offer Cognitive Science Distinctive Methods? (http://www.carleton.ca/~abrook/methods.htm) Article by Andrew Brook (Carleton University)



Thought Experiments and Counterexamples (http://www.princeton.edu/~jimpryor/general/vocab/analyses.html) Lecture notes by James Pryor (Princeton University)

Socratic Method
Socratic Method and Scientific Method (http://www.soci.niu.edu/~phildept/Dye/method.html) A comparison of the Socratic and Scientific methods by James Dye (Northern Illinois University)



Confusion about the Socratic Method: Socratic Paradoxes and Contemporary Invocations of S... (http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES-Yearbook/1998/reich.html) Article by Rob Reich (Stanford University), Philosophy of Education, 1998



The Socratic Method (http://www.str.org/free/studies/socratic.htm) Article by Ken Samples



What Socrates Taught (http://www.san.beck.org/SOCRATES4-What.html) Excellent overview of Socrates by Sanderson Beck.



Socrates (http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/socr.htm) General information on Socratic philosophy and Web links, from the Philosophy Pages.

Scientific Method
Scientific Method (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method) Wikipedia article



Introduction to the scientific method (http://teacher.nsrl.rochester.edu/phy_labs/AppendixE/AppendixE.html) Overview by Frank Wolfs (University of Rochester)



The Scientific Method (http://phyun5.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node5.html) Course Notes by Jose Wudka (U. C. Riverside)



The Scientific Method (http://home.xnet.com/~blatura/skep_1.html) Discussion by Bill Latura (Engineer, Nalco Chemical Company)



Scientific method (http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/s2.htm#scim) Definition and suggested links by Garth Kemerling

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