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Larry Laudan

University of Texas at Austin
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  • University of Texas at Austin
    Department of Philosophy
    Regular Faculty (Part-time)
Princeton University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1965
Areas of Specialization
20th Century Philosophy
General Philosophy of Science
17th/18th Century Philosophy
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Law
General Philosophy of Science
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  •  88
    Scientific Realism: A Critical ReappraisalNicholas Rescher
    Isis 80 (4): 745-746. 1989.
    Standard Scientific RealismConvergent RealismHistory of Science, MiscScientific Realism, Misc
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    Realism without the real
    Philosophy of Science 51 (1): 156-162. 1984.
    Scientific Realism, Misc
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    El desarrollo y la resolución de las crisis epistemológicas: Estudios de caso en la ciencia y el derecho durante el siglo XVII
    Signos Filosóficos 5 83-119. 2001.
    The author’sinterest 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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    Reviews (review)
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 19 (3): 264-265. 1968.
    Science, Logic, and Mathematics
  •  195
    William Whewell on the Consilience of Inductions
    The 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
    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 debate by treating it as a straightforward encounter between an arch-empiricist and an arch-rationalist. There is, however, a danger that an emphasis on the necessitarian and a priori elements in Whewell’s philosophy may well obscure the unmistakable empirical emphasis in Whewell’s theory of science. I think it is time to begin to redress the balance, by focusing attention on the significant ‘empiricist’ strains in Whewell’s philosophy of science. One of the most important of those strains is connected with the operation which Whewell calls ‘the consilience of inductions’.
    Inductive ReasoningRobustness in ScienceEmpiricism, Misc
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    Conceptual problems re-visited
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 19 (4): 531-534. 1988.
    Science, Logic, and Mathematics
  • Progress and its problems: Towards a theory of scientific growth
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 32 (1): 57-71. 1978.
    Science, Logic, and Mathematics
  •  58
    Two puzzles about science: Reflections on some crises in the philosophy and sociology of science (review)
    Minerva 20 (3-4): 253-268. 1982.
    Sociology of Science
  • Anomaly of affirmative defenses
    In 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.
  •  72
    More on Bloor
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 12 (1): 71-74. 1982.
    Sociology of Knowledge
  • Teorias do Método Científico de Platão a Mach
    with Balthazar Filho
    Cadernos de História E Filosofia da Ciéncia 10 (2). 2000.
    Este artigo, originalmente publicado em History of Science, vol. 7 , pp. 1-63, contém talvez a mais completa bibliografia existente sobre as teorias do método, além de fornecer preciosas indicações para o seu uso e para o estudo da história da metodologia em geral. Agradecemos ao Professor Larry Laudan por ter preparado, especialmente para a tradução brasileira, um suplemento bibliográfico contendo muitos títulos novos. Embora o texto do ensaio original permaneça praticamente inalterado, algumas…Read more
    Este artigo, originalmente publicado em History of Science, vol. 7 , pp. 1-63, contém talvez a mais completa bibliografia existente sobre as teorias do método, além de fornecer preciosas indicações para o seu uso e para o estudo da história da metodologia em geral. Agradecemos ao Professor Larry Laudan por ter preparado, especialmente para a tradução brasileira, um suplemento bibliográfico contendo muitos títulos novos. Embora o texto do ensaio original permaneça praticamente inalterado, algumas notas foram modificadas, de maneira a incluírem referências à bibliografia suplementar. Óbvios erros de impressão da edição original foram suprimidos. Na apresentação da bibliografia seguimos, com poucas modificações, as convenções do original
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