Có một lý thuyết triết học mới của tài liệu tham khảo và ý nghĩa làm cho nó dễ dàng hơn để đối mặt với những vấn đề của vô ước; triết gia có thể dễ dàng hơn nói rằng chúng ta có một lý thuyết mới về khối lượng cũ chứ không phải là một lý thuyết của Einstein đại chúng cạnh tranh với một lý thuyết về khối lượng Newton. Các lý thuyết mới, tốt hơn và xấu hơn, cũng làm cho nó dễ dàng hơn để nói về thực tế không quan sát được. Trong bài giảng. | Philosophy of Science Part III Professor Jeffrey L. Kasser The Teaching Company Jeffrey L. Kasser . Teaching Assistant Professor North Carolina State University Jeff Kasser grew up in southern Georgia and in northwestern Florida. He received his . from Rice University and his . and . from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor . He enjoyed an unusually wide range of teaching opportunities as a graduate student including teaching philosophy of science to . students in Michigan s School of Nursing. Kasser was the first recipient of the John Dewey Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education given by the Department of Philosophy at Michigan. While completing his dissertation he taught briefly at Wesleyan University. His first real job was at Colby College where he taught 10 different courses helped direct the Integrated Studies Program and received the Charles Bassett Teaching Award in 2003. Kasser s dissertation concerned Charles S. Peirce s conception of inquiry and the classical pragmatism of Peirce and William James serves as the focus of much of his research. His essay Peirce s Supposed Psychologism won the 1998 essay prize of the Charles S. Peirce Society. He has also published essays on such topics as the ethics of belief and the nature and importance of truth. He is working all too slowly on a number of projects at the intersection of epistemology philosophy of science and American pragmatism. Kasser is married to another philosopher Katie McShane so he spends a good bit of time engaged in extracurricular argumentation. When he is not committing philosophy and sometimes when he is Kasser enjoys indulging his passion for jazz and blues. He would like to thank the many teachers and colleagues from whom he has learned about teaching philosophy and he is especially grateful for the instruction in philosophy of science he has received from Baruch Brody Richard Grandy James Joyce Larry Sklar and Peter Railton. He has also benefited from discussing
