This page provides a break-down of topics that are covered in the course. Note that the topics are not necessarily addressed in the order given here.
philosophy of science overview deductive logic; syllogisms problem of induction Duhem and conventionalism; Duhem in brief Popper and falsificationism; Popper in brief Kuhn and paradigmatic science; Kuhn in brief Feyerabend and methodological anarchism; Feyerabend in brief Hattiangadi and methodology without methodological rules phenomenology The vicious circle and the virtuous spiral
post-structuralism post-modernism alternative description Michel Foucault Jacques Derrida and deconstruction History of the Galileo-Scholastics Debate The New Musicology Critique of Post-modernism Nicholas Cook: Music scholarship as cultural construction
experimental method operational definition null hypothesis prediction versus post-hoc reasoning sampling repeated measures within-subjects; between-subjects critical experiments converging evidence
field observations survey research archival research non-experimental methods qualitative methods
longitudinal study cross-sectional study between-subjects design; independent groups design within-subjects design; repeated measures design blind experiment double blind experiment internet experiment single-subject experiment multiple baseline design pager technique pretest-posttest design two-alternative forced choice participant-observation
EEG, ECG, EMB, PET, fMRI, CAT ceiling effect; floor effect error detection & reduction
Likert scale CRUDY - continuous adjustment method of adjustment 2AFC, 3AFC, etc. probe-tone technique analysis-by-synthesis betting paradigm head-turning paradigm dishabituation paradigm
demand characteristics placebo effect non-response bias
autophase method
Chi-square analysis correlation analysis t-test others
using gnuplot visual display of quantitative information
physical modelling curve-fitting preference rules neural nets TG grammars reserved data set
research ethics; Human Subjects Committee recruiting subjects preparing stimuli/test materials reporting results research funding