%0 Journal Article %1 Slowik:2003 %A Slowik, Edward %D 2003/04/01/ %J Science & Education %K Didaktik Musik Naturwissenschaft Philosophie %N 3 %P 289--302 %R 10.1023/A:1024028517882 %T Myth, Music, and Science: Teaching the Philosophy of Science through the Use of Non-Scientific Examples %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1024028517882 %V 12 %X This essay explores the benefits of utilizing non-scientificexamples and analogies in teaching philosophy of science courses. These examples can helpresolve two basic difficulties faced by most instructors, especially when teachinglower-level courses: first, they can prompt students to take an active interest in the classmaterial, since the examples will involve aspects of the culture well-known, or atleast more interesting, to the students; and second, these familiar, less-threatening exampleswill lessen the students' collective anxieties and open them up to learning thematerial more easily. To demonstrate this strategy of constructing and employing non-scientificexamples, a lengthy analogy between musical styles and Kuhn's theory ofscientific revolutions is developed.

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