23. 2. Zahájení semináře + testování teorií I

(1) Harry M. Collins – Trevor J. Pinch, “Two Experiments that Proved the Theory of Relativity” in The Golem: What Everyone Should Know about Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, s. 27-55. Prosíme o nastudování zejm. 2. části této kapitoly, jež je věnována Eddingtonovu experimentu (v našem elektronickém vydání knihy na s. 55-67).

(2) Carl Gustav Hempel (1966), "Crucial Tests" in The Philosophy of Natural Science. Prentice-Hall, 1966, s. 25-28.

9. 3. Testování teorií II

(1) Trevor Pinch, “Theory Testing in Science. The Case of Solar Neutrinos: Do Crucial Experiments Test Theories or Theorists?“, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 15, 1985, s. 167-187.

(2) Imre Lakatos, “Introduction: Science and Pseudoscience” in Philosophical Papers, Vol. I: The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes. (J. Worrall – G. Currie, eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978, s. 1-7.

23. 3. Replikace experimentů I

(1) Collins, H. M., "Son of Seven Sexes: The Social Destruction of a Physical Phenomenon." Social Studies of Science 11, no. 1, 1981: 33-62.

(2) Radder, Hans, “Experimental Reproductibility and the Experimenters’ Regress.” PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1992: 63-73.

6. 4. Replikace experimentů II

(1) Mulkay, Michael. “The Scientist Talks Back: A One-Act Play, with a Moral, about Replication in Science and Reflexivity in Sociology.” Social Studies of Science 14, no. 2, 1984: 265–83.

(2) Hacking, Ian, "Experimentation and scientific realism", in Representing and Intervening, 1983: 252-267.

(3) Franklin, A. and Howson, C. “Why Do Scientists Prefer to Vary Their Experiments,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 15 (1984), 51-62.

20. 4. Vědecké kontroverze/vytváření konsensu I

(1) Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump. Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life, chapter II: "Seeing and Believing: The Experimental Production of Pneumatic Facts", Princeton University Press, Princeton 1985, pp. 22-79.

(2) Hacking, Ian, "Experimentation and scientific realism", in Representing and Intervening, 1983: 252-267.

4. 5. Vědecké kontroverze/vytváření konsensu II

(1) M. Heidelberger, „Theory-Ladenness and Scientific Instruments in Experimentation.“ In H. Radder (Ed.), The Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003, str. 138-151.

(2) Knorr-Cetina, Karin. „How Superorganisms Change: Consensus Formation and the Social Ontology of High-Energy Physics Experiments“ Social Studies of Science 25, no. 1 (1995), str. 119-47.

18. 5. Konstrukce a dekonstrukce kvarků I

(1. 6. Pro ty, kdo nebudou mít dost I: Konstrukce a dekonstrukce kvarků II)

(15. 6. Pro ty, kdo nebudou mít dost II: Fyzici čtou STS)

5. - 7. 7. Setkání s prof. Harry Collins