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The Nature of Religious Language: Exploring Whether Religious Claims Can Be Meaningfully Asserted.

The Nature of Religious Language: Exploring Whether Religious Claims Can Be Meaningfully Asserted (Lecture Hall, complete with chalkboard overflowing with philosophical doodles, a half-eaten bag of crisps on the lectern,…

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Arguments Against the Existence of God (Problem of Evil, Argument from Non-Belief).

Arguments Against the Existence of God: The Problem of Evil and the Argument from Non-Belief (A Lecture with a Dash of Sarcasm and a Sprinkle of Seriousness) (Disclaimer: This lecture…

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Arguments for the Existence of God (Ontological, Cosmological, Teleological).

Arguments for the Existence of God: A Crash Course in Divine Persuasion (and Why It Might Not Work) 🤪 Welcome, my dear seekers of truth, to the most perplexing, exhilarating,…

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The Role of Values in Science: Investigating Whether Scientific Inquiry Is Value-Neutral.

The Role of Values in Science: Investigating Whether Scientific Inquiry Is Value-Neutral (A Lecture Designed to Make You Question EVERYTHING!) (Professor Quirke, Department of Existential Wondering, University of Utterly Confused)…

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The Problem of Induction Revisited: Goodman’s New Riddle of Induction and Its Implications.

The Problem of Induction Revisited: Goodman's New Riddle of Induction and Its Implications (A Lecture) (Opening Slide: A picture of a perplexed Sherlock Holmes scratching his head with a magnifying…

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The Nature of Scientific Laws: Examining What Makes a Generalization a Law of Nature.

The Nature of Scientific Laws: Examining What Makes a Generalization a Law of Nature (A Lecture: Prepare for Mind-Bending and Occasional Existential Dread!) (Professor Quirkly adjusts his oversized glasses, surveys…

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Theory Choice and Underdetermination: Exploring How Scientists Choose Between Competing Theories When Evidence Is Insufficient to Decide.

Theory Choice and Underdetermination: When the Evidence Just Isn't Enough (or, Schrödinger's Theory Selection) Welcome, intrepid knowledge-seekers, to another whirlwind tour of the philosophical battlefield that is the philosophy of…

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Scientific Explanation: Investigating Different Models of How Science Explains Natural Phenomena.

Scientific Explanation: Investigating Different Models of How Science Explains Natural Phenomena (A Lecture for the Intensely Curious and Mildly Skeptical) (Professor Explano-Matic, PhD - Purveyor of Puzzling Propositions and Enthusiastic…

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The Problem of Demarcation: Examining the Question of How to Distinguish Science from Pseudoscience.

The Problem of Demarcation: Examining the Question of How to Distinguish Science from Pseudoscience (A Lecture) (Imagine dramatic lecture hall lighting and the sound of polite coughing. A presenter, let's…

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Scientific Anti-Realism: Investigating the View That Scientific Theories Are Primarily Useful Tools for Prediction and Explanation, Not Necessarily True Descriptions.

Scientific Anti-Realism: Are Scientists Just Making Stuff Up? 🧐 (A Lecture in Disguise) Introduction: Welcome to the Rabbit Hole! 🐇 Hello everyone, and welcome to a lecture that might just…

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