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, 201-206

4.  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. Overmann
Response to Frederick Grinnell,  Peter van Inwagen, Proceedings of "Darwinism:  Scientific inference or philosophical preference?",  SMU  3/92