Powerpoint Slides

For the animation of Ptolemy’s universe shown in class, click on this link and run the app “Ptolemy.exe”

For the night sky simulator, go to Stellarium.org to download the app for free.

2023 lecture slides:

1.  Worldviews

2.  Hypotheses and Data

3.  Ancient Astronomy

4.  Empiricism and Rationalism

5.  Induction and Paradigms

6.  Copernican Astronomy

7.  Science and Religion

8.  Kinematics and mechanics

9.  Falsificationism

10. Inference to the best explanation

11. The problem of induction

12.  Science and Authority

13.  Categories

14.  Laws of Nature

15.  Naturalism and Science

16.  Religion and evolutionary biology

Old lecture slides:

15.  Laws of Nature

16.  Naturalism and Science

17.  Religion and evolutionary biology

18.  Review

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