PHL 552- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 62 pages long!)

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHL 552
• Professor: Glenn Parsons

Document Summary

The origins of philosophy of science: logical empiricism (first philosophical school to develop philosophy of science) a. b. c. d. However, it has roots in older branches of philosophy. In fact, educated people had sophisticated way of understanding the natural world but had a different way of explaining it. It was through a way of view called scholasticisim. It is a worldview based on combination of: religious thinking (christian belief) and aristotle"s works. Aristotle"s works were rediscovered in latter part of middle ages and became influential. Authority over experiment - authority had an important place in scholasticism. Aristotle"s works thought to be of great wisdom so there was a tendency to give that more weight than empirical observations and experiments. The bible is another source of authority that was given precedence. Teleology - teoleogical explanation is used by scholasticism. The idea was to use the notion of a goal or telos to explain how things behave in the world.