Reviews of Student Papers in
Introduction to Philosophy of Science X303.


A call for assistance: We assign several papers to the students in our History and Philosophy of Science Course during the semester. Under "The assignment" selection below you will find the topic(s) about which the paper was to have been written. Under the "The papers" you will find papers written by students in the course, entered by title and a code number.

Please help the students by sending corrections, comments, suggestions and any other helpful information you have to offer them about the content of their papers. Use the Response Box at the end of this page, or respond by e-mail to William Rumsey: wrumsey@iusmail.ius.indiana.edu or Kyle Forinash: kforinas@iusmail.ius.indiana.edu.



First paper.




Response Box


Use the following to review or make corrections or comments to papers. Comments will be edited and appended to the paper, for the benefit of the author.


Reviewer information.

(NOTE: Anonymous reviews will not be posted.)

Information about the paper.

  1. Title of the paper you are commenting on:

  2. Reference number of the paper:

  3. Enter your comments. Be sure to include pros and cons, factual errors, alternate points to consider and anything else you think might be useful to the author of this paper:

  4. Overall rating:
    1. Excellent.
    2. Very good.
    3. Good.
    4. Needs revision.
    5. Start over.


  5. Maintained by William Rumsey:
    wrumsey@iusmail.ius.indiana.edu and Kyle Forinash: kforinas@iusmail.ius.indiana.edu.