HW 32

• Length: two pages.
• Due by 11/11/13 (11:59 pm)
• To be submitted online, through Canvas.
Pick one of the following four topics:
Topic 1
Explain the difference between the instrumentalist and realist interpretations of
the Copernican system.
Topic 2
Explain the difference between Galileo’s views on the nature of heat and those
of the Aristotelians.
Topic 3
On aforism 19 of the Novum Organum, Bacon mentions two ways of “searching
into and discovering truth.” What do they consist in? Which of these two does
he prefer and why?
Topic 4
Explain Hobbes’ concept of the State of Nature (Leviathan 1; ch. 13). Why
does he say that in such a state “every man has a right to everything”?
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