Now that you have learned about some key concepts in the philosophy of science and read about some of the most influential schools of thought, I would like you to try a little exercise.

Now that you have learned about some key concepts in the philosophy of science and read about some of the most influential schools of thought, I would like you to try a little exercise. For this assignment

1- Go back to the 3.1.b The skeptic’s challenge at the beginning of this unit and read again the dialogue between Alice and Deb.

2- Imagine Deb and Alice meet again. Imagine, both have read/learn the same information you have read in this unit.

3- Create a new dialogue between them about what they (you) have learned. Each of them has to participate in the dialog for at least five times with something else than a yes/no answer) and the dialogue should incorporate concepts covered in this unit such as empiricism, realism, falsificationism, paradigm, etc…

 Example 1

Example 2