creators_name: Hardcastle, Gary creators_name: Slater, Matthew creators_id: ghardcas@bloomu.edu creators_id: matthew.slater@bucknell.edu type: conference_item datestamp: 2013-07-12 06:48:13 lastmod: 2013-07-12 06:48:13 metadata_visibility: show title: The Oxbay Ojectpray: A Novel Exercise for Teaching the Philosophy of Science subjects: science-education full_text_status: public keywords: Pedagogy, exercise abstract: 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, over the course of a semester, without opening it. This exercise has proved a useful platform from which to examine a wide range of issues in the philosophy of science and may, we suggest, even help us think about improving the public understanding of science. date: 2013-07-08 citation: Hardcastle, Gary and Slater, Matthew (2013) The Oxbay Ojectpray: A Novel Exercise for Teaching the Philosophy of Science. In: [2012] Philosophy of Science Assoc. 23rd Biennial Mtg (San Diego, CA) > PSA 2012 Symposia . document_url: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/9878/1/BoxProjectWriteup_(LAST_FINAL).docx