Lectures
Power Point Lectures from Phil 12 are posted as they become available
Exemplary reasoning in science
Elements of science
Valid arguments
Confirmation, falsification, and fallibility
Observation and categories
Categorizing phenomena
Observational research
Distributions and samples
Predicting relations between variables
Predicting from correlations
Differences between means
Correlation and causation
Causal explanation
Reasoning about and graphing causes
Causality and experiments
Causation when experiments are not possible
Mechanism and mechanistic explanation
Organization and levels of organization
Discovering mechanisms