Kirjallisuus sovitaan aina opettajan kanssa. Alla esimerkkejä mahdollisista aihepiireistä ja kirjoista. Huomaa että yhteiskuntatieteen filosofialle ja psykologian/kognitiotieteen filosofialle on opintojaksot erillisillä koodeilla.
Selittäminen, kausaatio, lait:
Woodward 2003: Making Things Happen. A theory of causal explanation (5 op).
Salmon 1989: Four Decades of Scientific Explanation (2op)
Steel 2008: Across the Boundaries: Extrapolation in biology and social science (2op)
Bechtel & Richardson 2010: Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and localization as strategies in scientific research (3 op)
Strevens 2008: Depth. An account of scientific explanation (5 op).
Lange 2009: Laws and Lawmakers: Science, metaphysics, and the laws of nature (3 op)
van Fraassen 1989: Laws and Symmetry (4 op).
Tieteellinen realismi:
Psillos 1999: Scientific Realism (3 op)
Niiniluoto 1999: Critical Scientific Realism (3 op)
Ladyman & Ross 2007: Every Thing Must Go (4 op)
Hacking 1983: Representing and Intervening (3 op)
Giere 2006: Scientific Perspectivism (3 op)
Tiede, arvot, objektiivisuus:
Longino 1990: Science as Social Knowledge: Values and objectivity in scientific inquiry (3 op)
Douglas 2009: Science, Policy and the Value-free Ideal (2 op)
Solomon 2001: Social Empiricism (2 op)
Mallintaminen tieteessä:
Weisberg 2013: Simulation and Similarity (2 op)
Humphreys 2004: Extending Ourselves: Computational science, empiricism and scientific method (2 op).
Tilastolliset menetelmät ja tieteenfilosofia:
Mayo 1996: Error and the Growth of Knowledge (4 op)
Howson and Urbach 1989: Scientific reasoning: the Bayesian approach (4 op)
Biologian filosofia:
Sterelny & Griffiths 1999, Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology. (4 op)
Godfrey-Smith, P. 2014, Philosophy of Biology. (2 op)
Ayala & Arp 2009, Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. (5 op)
Griffiths & Stotz 2013, Genetics and Philosophy: An Introduction. (3 op)
Ylikoski & Kokkonen 2009, Evoluutio ja ihmisluonto. Gaudeamus. (4 op)
Neurotieteen filosofia:
Craver 2007: Explaining the Brain: Mechanisms and the mosaic unity of neuroscience (3 op)
Tiede sosiokognitiivisena järjestelmänä:
Carruthers, Stich, Siegal 2002: The Cognitive Basis of Science (4 op)
Nersessian 2008: Creating Scientific Concepts (2 op)
Boyer-Kassem, Mayo-Wilson, Weisberg 2017: Scientific Collaboration and Collective Knowledge: New essays (2 op)
Hull 1988: Science as a Process (5 op).
