Assignment due for week 2:
Required readings:
1. Darwinism's rules of reasoning, P. Johnson, Proceedings of "Darwinism: Scientific inference or philosophical preference?", SMU 3/92
2. Naturalism, Methodological & Otherwise, P. Johnson, (appendix in "Reason in the Balance")
3. Of Naturalism and Negativity, in Tower of Babel, R. Pennock
p 189-196, 201-2064. Radical intersubjectivity: Why naturalism is an assumption necessary for doing science, Frederick Grinnell, Proceedings of "Darwinism: Scientific inference or philosophical preference?", SMU 3/92
Optional readings (on reserve at Zimmerman library):
A case against accident and self organization: Part I: Introduction, Part II: Verbal and mathematical logic relating to the questions presented, D. OvermannResponse to Frederick Grinnell, Peter van Inwagen, Proceedings of "Darwinism: Scientific inference or philosophical preference?", SMU 3/92