Larry Laudan: 2 books
Science and Relativism
Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
In recent years, many members of the intellectual community have embraced a radical relativism regarding knowledge in general and scientific knowledge in particular, holding that Kuhn, Quine, and Feyerabend have knocked the traditional picture of scientific knowledge into a cocked hat. Is philosophy...
Science and Hypothesis
Historical Essays on Scientific Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This 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...