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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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114For Method: or, Against FeyerabendIn James Robert Brown & Jürgen 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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420Science and Values: The Aims of Science and Their Role in Scientific DebateUniversity of California Press. 1984.Laudan constructs a fresh approach to a longtime problem for the philosopher of science: how to explain the simultaneous and widespread presence of both agreement and disagreement in science. Laudan critiques the logical empiricists and the post-positivists as he stresses the need for centrality and values and the interdependence of values, methods, and facts as prerequisites to solving the problems of consensus and dissent in science
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149A Confutation of Convergent RealismIn Yuri Balashov & Alex Rosenberg (eds.), Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Readings, Routledge. pp. 211. 2001.
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92Damn the Consequences!Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 69 (2). 1995.
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26The 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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63Put “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” out to pasture?In Andrei Marmor (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law, Routledge. pp. 317. 2012.
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5Truth, 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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427Normative naturalismPhilosophy of Science 57 (1): 44-59. 1990.Normative naturalism is a view about the status of epistemology and philosophy of science; it is a meta-epistemology. It maintains that epistemology can both discharge its traditional normative role and nonetheless claim a sensitivity to empirical evidence. The first sections of this essay set out the central tenets of normative naturalism, both in its epistemic and its axiological dimensions; later sections respond to criticisms of that species of naturalism from Gerald Doppelt, Jarrett Leplin …Read more
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59El 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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195William 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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83Conceptual problems re-visitedStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 19 (4): 531-534. 1988.
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58Two 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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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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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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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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447How about bust? Factoring explanatory power back into theory evaluationPhilosophy of Science 64 (2): 306-316. 1997.1. Introduction. The papers by Hellman and Mayo offer up a rich menu of problems and proposed solutions, so there is much here for a friendly critic to fasten on. In order to bring a modicum of focus to my commentary, I shall limit my remarks to the Duhem problem and its radiations in epistemology and methodology. Both Mayo and Hellman claim to have solutions to that hoary old problem and they tout these solutions as key indicators of the explanatory power of their respective technical epistemol…Read more
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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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83Progress and Its Problems: Towards a Theory of Scientific GrowthPhilosophical Review 87 (4): 614. 1978.
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378Demystifying underdeterminationIn C. Wade Savage (ed.), Scientific Theories, University of Minnesota Press. pp. 267-97. 1956.
Areas of Specialization
| 20th Century Philosophy |
| General Philosophy of Science |
| 17th/18th Century Philosophy |
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| Philosophy of Law |
| General Philosophy of Science |