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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Date and place: Wed 10.00-11.20, room 224
Title: Logic in the philosophy of science
Lecturer: Márton Gömöri

Aim of the course: 
The reading seminar will discuss key logic-related notions arising from debates in philosophy of science, including theory, equivalence, translation, reduction, and model.

Grading criteria, specific requirements:
Grading will be based on presentation and participation in the classes. Knowledge of basic logic is necessary.

Readings:
Halvorson, H. (2019). The Logic in Philosophy of Science. Cambridge University Press.
 
Halvorson, H. (2012). “What scientific theories could not be”. In: Philosophy of Science
79.2, pp. 183–206.

Barrett, T. and H. Halvorson (2016). “Morita Equivalence”. In: The Review of Symbolic
Logic 9.3, pp. 556–582.

Butterfield, J. (2011). “Emergence, Reduction and Supervenience: a Varied Landscape”.
In: Foundations of Physics 41.6, pp. 920–460.

Dizadji-Bahmani, F., R. Frigg, and S. Hartmann (2010). “Who’s Afraid of Nagelian Re-
duction?” In: Erkenntnis 73.3, pp. 393–412.

Gaifman, H. (1984). “Why Language?” In: Reduction in Science: Structure, Examples,
Philosophical Problems. Ed. by W. Balzer, D. A. Pearce, and H.-H. Schmidt. Dor-
drecht: Reidel, pp. 319–330.

Hudetz, L. (2017). “The semantic view of theories and higher-order languages”. In: Syn-
these. 

Glymour, C. (2013). “Theoretical equivalence and the semantic view of theories”. In:
Philosophy of science 80.2, pp. 286–297.

Putnam, H. (1983). “Equivalence”. In: Philosophical Papers. Volume 3. Realism and Rea-
son. Ed. by H. Putnam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 26–45.

Madarász, J. (2002). “Logic and Relativity (in the light of definability theory)”. PhD
dissertation. PhD dissertation. Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest.

Leitgeb, H. (2011): “Logic in general philosophy of science: old things and new things”. In: Synthese, Vol. 179, No. 2: pp. 339-350