Nov 29, 2015
A continuation of the biography of Richard Feynman covering his time with the Manhattan Project.
Nov 22, 2015
A continuation of the biography of American physicist Richard Feynman through his years in higher education at MIT and Princeton.
Nov 8, 2015
A discussion the positivist positions of the equivalentists and the energetists as represented in the ideas and writings of Marcellin Bertholot, Ernst Mach, Wilhelm Oswald and Pierre Duhem. From this the instrumentalism of American philosopher John Dewey is developed and contrasted with scientific realism.
Nov 1, 2015
A discussion of epistemology in the philosophy of science. Topics include scientific realism, idealism, phenomenalism, representationalism and positivism.