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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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24Quarta sessió del Seminari de Larry Lawdan.
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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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14Commentary: Science at the Bar–Causes for ConcernScience, Technology and Human Values 7 (4): 16-19. 1982.
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14VI. Thomas Reid and the Newtonian Turn of British Methodological ThoughtIn John W. Davis & Robert E. Butts (eds.), The Methodological Heritage of Newton, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 103-131. 1971.
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9Segona sessió del Seminari de Larry Lawdan
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5Aliados extraños: la inferencia a la mejor explicación y el estándar de prueba penalProblema. Anuario de Filosofía y Teoria Del Derecho 1 (1): 305-327. 2007.In this short essay the author deals with the fundamental question of whether the Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) model has sufficient grounds to be considered as a substitute of the current criminal standard of proof (proof Beyond All Reasonable Doubt). After giving an overview of the IBE model as proposed in more general fields such as epistemology and the philosophy of science, and after concluding that the IBE has failed as a model of the acceptance and rejection of scientific theori…Read more
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4Scientific Progress and Content LossIn Eliot Deutsch (ed.), Culture and Modernity: East-West Philosophic Perspectives, University of Hawaii Press. pp. 561-569. 1991.
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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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3The 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: Volume 1, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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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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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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1The Philosophy of Progress…PSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1978 (2): 530-547. 1978.Philosophical dialogue is a curious activity. Arguments are expected to be rigorous, but no demand is made that there must be evidence for the premisses. Terminology is expected to be precise, but its appropriateness to the subject matter under discussion can be left unexplored. Officially, nothing is conceded; but, in fact, a great deal is taken for granted. Ad argumentum mingles indiscriminately with ad hominem; and, above all, the evidential warrant for one’s philosophical claims is, like the…Read more
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1Scrutinizing Science: Empirical Studies of Scientific ChangeBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (4): 1063-1065. 1994.
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Teorias do Método Científico de Platão a MachCadernos 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
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Beyond Positivism and Relativism: Theory, Method, and EvidenceBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48 (3): 447-454. 1997.
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„A Confutation of Convergent Realism “in Yuri Balashov and Alex RosenbergIn Yuri Balashov & Alexander Rosenberg (eds.), Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Readings, Routledge. pp. 211--33. 2002.
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Progress and its problems: Towards a theory of scientific growthBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 32 (1): 57-71. 1978.
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The methodological foundations of Mach's anti-atomism and their historical rootsIn Peter K. Machamer & Robert G. Turnbull (eds.), Motion and Time, Space and Matter, Ohio State University Press. pp. 390--417. 1976.
Areas of Specialization
20th Century Philosophy |
General Philosophy of Science |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Law |
General Philosophy of Science |