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work_xmptkfju5rboxphmjwmwomhprm	Gary Hardcastle	A Novel Exercise for Teaching the Philosophy of Science	2014	13	.pdf	application/pdf	6551	358	65	We describe a simple, flexible exercise that can be implemented in the philosophy of science classroom: students are asked to determine the contents of a closed container without opening it. On the first day of our undergraduate philosophy of science classes, our students are handed a syllabus typical of syllabi for such presentations will be given letter grades reflecting quality and thoroughness, and these will determine your group's grade for the Box Project. In the absence of rigorous assessment we offer the discussion to follow—much of which turns on the surprising ways the Box Project naturally illuminates a number of science's most interesting features— students to central questions and issues in the philosophy of science suggests that the exercise is relevant to a more serious problem: the poor grasp Of course, while the Box Project is robust, requiring little from an instructor to set up, it does not teach the philosophy of science by itself.	./cache/work_xmptkfju5rboxphmjwmwomhprm.pdf	./txt/work_xmptkfju5rboxphmjwmwomhprm.txt