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35Science and systematicity: Paul Hoyningen-Huene: Systematicity: The nature of science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, xiii+287pp, £41.99 HB (review)Metascience 23 (1): 1-4. 2014.This is a review of Paul Hoyningen-Huene's book, Systematicity: The Nature of Science.
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385Success and truth in the realism/anti-realism debateSynthese 190 (9): 1719-1729. 2013.I aim to clarify the relationship between the success of a theory and the truth of that theory. This has been a central issue in the debates between realists and anti-realists. Realists assume that success is a reliable indicator of truth, but the details about the respects in which success is a reliable indicator or test of truth have been largely left to our intuitions. Lewis (Synthese 129:371–380, 2001) provides a clear proposal of how success and truth might be connected, comparing a test of…Read more
K. Brad Wray
Aarhus University
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Aarhus UniversityCentre For Science StudiesRegular Faculty
Aarhus, Denmark
Areas of Specialization
General Philosophy of Science |
Epistemology |
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
Areas of Interest
General Philosophy of Science |
Epistemology |