Seminars

There are eight groups; each group has a one hour (45 mins) seminar each week (see schedule). Your assigned group number is the sum of all digits in your social security number modulo 8 (replace non-digits with 0).

If you have a schedule conflict with another course you may swap groups with another student. At the end of each lecture there will be a swapping session by the blackboard. If possible, swap with someone who has the same group parity (odd/even).There is also a group swap wiki page.

This is a preliminary plan

Seminar Subject Reading Homework Hand in at 20:00 1 Science first chapter in Gorham: Philosophy of Science Homework 1 Sept 16 2 Philosophy Gorham: Chapter 3 p 53-79 Homework 2

Clarification

Sept 23 3 Turing and consciousness see homework! Homework 3 Sept 30 4 Mathematics Homework 4 Oct 7 5 Scientific method Homework 5 Nov 4 6 Scientific articles Planning a research project Homework 6 Nov 10 7 Probabilistic problems Homework 7 Nov 18 8 Application: Multi-version Programming Nov 25 9 Ethics Dec 2 10 Analysis of Arguments Dec 9