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15Waves, Particles, Independent Tests and the Limits of InductivismPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992. 1992.This paper seeks to show that Achinstein's recent attempt to establish that both parties to the wave-particle debate in 19th-century optics were Bayesian conditionalizers forces us to ignore several of the key conceptual issues in that controversy-not least the role of the vera causa principle and, more important still, the role of positive evidence in securing acceptance for the wave theory of light.
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48Damn the Consequences!Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 69 (2). 1995.
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185Progress or Rationality? The Prospects for Normative NaturalismAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 24 (1). 1987.
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77Thoughts on HPS: 20 years laterStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 20 (1): 9-13. 1989.
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The Book of Risks: Fascinating Facts about the Chances We Take Every DayPhilosophy of Science 64 (3): 515. 1997.
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2Science and Values. The Aims of Science and Their Role in Scientific DebateBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 39 (2): 263-275. 1988.
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9Segona sessió del Seminari de Larry Lawdan
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85A Confutation of Convergent RealismIn Yuri Balashov & Alexander Rosenberg (eds.), Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Readings, Routledge. pp. 211. 1980.
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25El desarrollo y la resolución de las crisis epistemológicas: Estudios de caso en la ciencia y el derecho durante el siglo XVIISignos Filosóficos 5 83-119. 2001.The authorsinterest goes to make the detailed exam of the changes of paradigms ofunderstanding, ends and means for it, in two historical examples happenedin the XVII century: the science and the right. Both examples are conceived as case studies which utility here is for responding to the question:..
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29Problems, truth, and consistencyStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 13 (1): 73-80. 1982.
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25The rules of trial, political morality and the costs of error: or, Is proof beyond a reasonable doubt doing more harm than good?In Leslie Green & Brian Leiter (eds.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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39Conceptual problems re-visitedStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 19 (4): 531-534. 1988.
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Progress and Its Problems: Towards a New Theory of Scientific GrowthSynthese 42 (3): 443-464. 1979.
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4Truth, Error, and Criminal Law: An Essay in Legal EpistemologyCambridge University Press. 2006.Beginning with the premise that the principal function of a criminal trial is to find out the truth about a crime, Larry Laudan examines the rules of evidence and procedure that would be appropriate if the discovery of the truth were, as higher courts routinely claim, the overriding aim of the criminal justice system. Laudan mounts a systematic critique of existing rules and procedures that are obstacles to that quest. He also examines issues of error distribution by offering the first integrate…Read more
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Anomaly of affirmative defensesIn Deborah G. Mayo & Aris Spanos (eds.), Error and Inference: Recent Exchanges on Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, and the Objectivity and Rationality of Science, Cambridge University Press. 2009.
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72Is reasonable doubt reasonable?Legal Theory 9 (4): 295-331. 2003.It is difficult, if not impossible, to so define the term as to satisfy a subtle and metaphysical mind, bent on the detection of some point, however attenuated, upon which to hang a criticism. —Supreme Court of Virginia 1
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27This book consists of a collection of essays written between 1965 and 1981. Some have been published elsewhere; others appear here for the first time. Although dealing with different figures and different periods, they have a common theme: all are concerned with examining how the method of hy pothesis came to be the ruling orthodoxy in the philosophy of science and the quasi-official methodology of the scientific community. It might have been otherwise. Barely three centuries ago, hypothetico de…Read more
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79For Method: or, Against FeyerabendIn J. R. Brown & J. Mittelstrass (eds.), An Intimate Relation: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Presented to Robert E. Butts on His 60th Birthday (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science), Springer. 1989.
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126William Whewell on the Consilience of InductionsThe Monist 55 (3): 368-391. 1971.Most contributions to Whewell scholarship have tended to stress the idealistic, antiempirical temper of Whewell’s philosophy. Thus, the only two monograph-length studies on Whewell, Blanché’s Le Rationalisme de Whewell and Marcucci’s L’ ‘Idealismo’ Scientifico di William Whewell, are, as their titles suggest, concerned primarily with Whewell’s departures from classical British empiricism. Particularly in his famous dispute with Mill, it has proved tempting to parody Whewell’s position in the deb…Read more
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282Demystifying underdeterminationIn C. Wade Savage (ed.), Scientific Theories, University of Minnesota Press. pp. 267-97. 1990.
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2Progress or rationalityIn David Papineau (ed.), The Philosophy of Science, Oxford University Press. pp. 194--214. 1996.
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30Two puzzles about science: Reflections on some crises in the philosophy and sociology of science (review)Minerva 20 (3-4): 253-268. 1982.
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1107Beyond Positivism and Relativism: Theory, Method, and EvidenceWestview Press. 1996.By targeting and critiquing these assumptions, he lays the groundwork for a post-positivist philosophy of science that does not provide aid and comfort to the enemies of reason. This book consists of thirteen essays.
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