PHL336 v1

Ede, & Cormack, L. B. (2012). A history of science in society : from philosophy to utility (2nd ed.). University of Toronto Press.
Reading 1: pp. 294-300
Reading 2: pp. 317-322
Reading 8: pp. 229-239
Reading 9: pp 322-326
Reading 10: pp 326-329
Reading 11: pp 423-427
Reading 12: pp 427-433

Gell-Mann, Murray. The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex. W.H. Freeman and Company 1994
Reading 3a: The reading appears as an excerpt in the course.

Quantum vs. Classical. (n.d.-b). https://quantumatlas.umd.edu/entry/quantum-classical/
Reading 3b

Lloreda, C. L., Buehler, J., Jesús, E. G. de, Sanders, L., Rosen, M., Cunningham, A., Gramling, C., Ogasa, N., Gramling, C., Ogasa, N., Grossman, L., Gramling, C., Riordon, J. R., Ogasa, N., Riordon, J. R., Siegfried, T., Siegfried, T., Siegfried, T., Siegfried, T., . . . Conover, E. (2022, December 16). Quantum mysteries dissolve if possibilities are realities. Science News. https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/quantum-mysteries-dissolve-if-possibilities-are-realities
Reading 4

Epperson, M. (2021, June 11). The creative universe. IAI TV - Changing How the World Thinks. https://iai.tv/articles/the-creative-universe-auid-1819
Reading 5

Naughton, J. (2018, March 22). Thomas Kuhn: the man who changed the way the world looked at science. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/aug/19/thomas-kuhn-structure-scientific-revolutions
Reading 6

Moore, J. A. (1980). Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” Revisited. The American Biology Teacher, 42(5), 298–304. https://doi.org/10.2307/4446944
Reading 7: pp.299-304

Gell-Mann, Murray. The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex. W.H. Freeman and Company 1994
pp 213-215. Provides an additional non-specialist discussion of quantum mechanics 

Kastner, R. E., Kauffman, S., & Epperson, M. (2017). Taking Heisenberg’s Potentia Seriously. Cornell University - ArXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1709.03595
 Dispels the popular misunderstanding that quantum mechanics means there is a “multiverse.” Provides an additional discussion of the difference between ‘potential’ and ‘actual’ physical states. 

Wolfson, R. (2003). Simply Einstein: Relativity Demystified (Reprint). W. W. Norton & Company.
Provides an additional non-specialist discussion of relativity theory