Larry Laudan

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Larry Laudan (born 16 October 1941) is an American philosopher of science who greatly shaped the debates in the field from the late 1970s till the mid 1990s.


Publications

Here are the works of Laudan included in the bibliographic records of this encyclopedia:

  • Laudan (1999): Laudan, Larry. (1999) Is Epistemology Adequate to the Task of Rational Theory Evaluation? In Nola and Sankey (Eds.) (2000), 165-176.
  • Laudan (1997a): Laudan, Larry. (1997) Danger Ahead: The Risks You Really Face on Life's Highwa. John Wiley.
  • Laudan (1997b): Laudan, Larry. (1997) How About Bust? Philosophy of Science 64 (2), 306-316.
  • Laudan (1996): Laudan, Larry. (1996) Beyond Positivism and Relativism. Theory, Method, and Evidence. Westview Press.
  • Laudan (1995): Laudan, Larry. (1995) The Book of Risks: Fascinating Facts About the Chances We Take Every Day. John Wiley.
  • Laudan (1993): Laudan, Larry. (1993) Waves, Particles, Independent Tests and the Limits of Inductivism. Philosophy of Science 1992 (2), 212-223.
  • Laudan and Leplin (1992): Laudan, Larry and Leplin, Jarrett. (1992) Determination Underdeterred: reply to Kukla. Analysis 53 (1), 8-16.
  • Laudan (1992): Laudan, Larry. (1992) Why Do Scientists Agree? In Shea and Spadafora (Eds.) (1992), 89-102.
  • Laudan and Leplin (1991): Laudan, Larry and Leplin, Jarrett. (1991) Empirical Equivalence and Underdetermination. Journal of Philosophy 88 (9), 449-472.
  • Laudan (1991): Laudan, Larry. (1991) Scientific Progress and Content Loss. In Deutsch (Ed.) (1991), 561-569.
  • Laudan (1990e): Laudan, Larry. (1990) Aim-less Epistemology? Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Part A 21 (2), 315-322.
  • Laudan (1990a): Laudan, Larry. (1990) De-Mystifying Underdetermination. In Savage (Ed.) (1990), 267-297.
  • Laudan (1990b): Laudan, Larry. (1990) History of Science and the Philosophy of Science. In Olby et al. (Eds.) (1990), 47-59.
  • Laudan (1990c): Laudan, Larry. (1990) Normative Naturalism. Philosophy of Science 57 (1), 44-59.
  • Laudan (1990d): Laudan, Larry. (1990) Science and Relativism: Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science. University of Chicago Press.
  • Laudan (1989a): Laudan, Larry. (1989) If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 40, 369-375.
  • Laudan (1989d): Laudan, Larry. (1989) For Method: Or, Against Feyerabend. In Brown and Mittelstrass (Eds.) (1989), 299-317.
  • Laudan (1989b): Laudan, Larry. (1989) Thoughts on HPS: 20 years later. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Part A 20 (1), 9-13.
  • Laudan and Laudan (1989): Laudan, Larry and Laudan, Rachel. (1989) Dominance and the Disunity-of-Method: Solving the Problems of Innovation and Consensus. Philosophy of Science 56 (2), 221-237.
  • Laudan (1989c): Laudan, Larry. (1989) The Rational Weight of the Scientific Past: Forging Fundamental Change in a Conservative Discipline. In Ruse (Ed.) (1989), 209-220.
  • Laudan, Laudan, and Donovan (1988): Laudan, Rachel; Laudan, Larry and Donovan, Arthur. (1988) Testing Theories of Scientific Change. In Donovan, Laudan, and Laudan (Eds.) (1988), 3-44.
  • Donovan, Laudan, and Laudan (Eds.) (1988): Donovan, Arthur; Laudan, Larry and Laudan, Rachel. (Eds.). (1988) Scrutinizing Science: Empirical Studies of Scientific Change. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • Laudan (1988b): Laudan, Larry. (1988) Are All Theories Equally Good? A Dialogue. In Nola (Ed.) (1988), 117-139.
  • Laudan (1988a): Laudan, Larry. (1988) Introduction. In Donovan, Laudan, and Laudan (Eds.) (1988), 3-44.
  • Laudan (1988c): Laudan, Larry. (1988) Conceptual Problems Re-Visited. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 19 (4), 531-534.
  • Laudan (1987b): Laudan, Larry. (1987) Relativism, Naturalism and Reticulation. Synthese 71 (3), 221-234.
  • Laudan (1987a): Laudan, Larry. (1987) Progress or Rationality? The Prospects for Normative Naturalism. American Philosophical Inquiry 24, 19-31.
  • Donovan, Laudan, and Laudan (1986): Laudan, Larry; Laudan, Rachel and Donovan, Arthur. (1986) Testing Theories of Scientific Change. Synthese 193, 3-44.
  • Laudan (1986b): Laudan, Larry. (1986) Dissecting the Holist Picture of Scientific Change. In Kourany (Ed.) (1986), 276-295.
  • Laudan (1986a): Laudan, Larry. (1986) Some Problems Facing Intuitionist Meta-Methodologies. Synthese 67 (1), 115-129.
  • Laudan (1985): Laudan, Larry. (1985) Kuhn's Critique on Methodology. In Pitt (Ed.) (1985), 283-300.
  • Laudan (1984a): Laudan, Larry. (1984) Science and Values. University of California Press.
  • Laudan (1984b): Laudan, Larry. (1984) Realism without the Real. Philosophy of Science 51 (1), 156-162.
  • Laudan (1984c): Laudan, Larry. (1984) Explaining the Success of Science: Beyond Epistemic Realism and Relativism. In Cushing, Delaney, and Gutting (Eds.) (1984), 83-105.
  • Laudan (1983d): Laudan, Larry. (1983) More on Creationism. Science, Technology, & Human Values 8, 36-38.
  • Laudan (Ed.) (1983): Laudan, Larry. (Ed.). (1983) Mind and Medicine. University of California Press.
  • Laudan (1983a): Laudan, Larry. (1983) The Demise of the Demarcation Problem. In Cohen and Laudan (Eds.) (1983), 111-127.
  • Laudan (1983b): Laudan, Larry. (1983) Invention and Justification. Philosophy of Science 50 (2), 320-322.
  • Laudan (1982c): Laudan, Larry. (1982) Two Puzzles about Science: Reflections on Some Crises in the Philosophy and Sociology of Science. Minerva 20 (3/4), 252-268.
  • Laudan (1982d): Laudan, Larry. (1982) Commentary: Science at the Bar—Causes for Concern. Science, Technology, & Human Values 7 (4), 16-19.
  • Laudan (1982e): Laudan, Larry. (1982) Problems, truth, and consistency. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Part A 13 (1), 73-80.
  • Laudan (1982a): Laudan, Larry. (1982) More on Bloor. Philosophy of Social Sciences 12 (1), 71-74.
  • Laudan (1982b): Laudan, Larry. (1982) A Note on Collins's Blend of Relativism and Empiricism. Social Studies of Science 12 (1), 131-133.
  • Laudan (1981g): Laudan, Larry. (1981) The Unfinished Einsteinean Revolution in Philosophy. In Barker and Shugart (Eds.) (1981), 133-146.
  • Laudan (1981c): Laudan, Larry. (1981) The Medium and Its Message: A Study of Some Philosophical Controversies about Ether. In Cantor and Hodge (Eds.) (1981), 157-186.
  • Laudan (1981h): Laudan, Larry. (1981) Epilog. In Barker and Shugart (Eds.) (1981), 237-240.
  • Laudan (1981j): Laudan, Larry. (1981) The Philosophy of Progress. PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1978 (2), 530-547.
  • Laudan (1981d): Laudan, Larry. (1981) A Problem-Solving Approach to Scientific Progress. In Hacking (Ed.) (1981), 144-155.
  • Laudan (1981i): Laudan, Larry. (1981) Anomalous Anomalies. Philosophy of Science 48 (4), 618-619.
  • Laudan (1981b): Laudan, Larry. (1981) Views of Progress: Separating the Pilgrims from the Rakes. Philosophy of Social Sciences 10 (3), 273-286.
  • Laudan (1981e): Laudan, Larry. (1981) A Confutation of Convergent Realism. Philosophy of Science 48 (1).
  • Laudan (1981a): Laudan, Larry. (1981) Science and Hypothesis. Historical Essays on Scientific Methodology. D. Reidel Publishing Company.
  • Laudan (1981f): Laudan, Larry. (1981) The Pseudo-Science of Science? Philosophy of the Social Sciences 11 (2), 173-198.
  • Laudan (1980): Laudan, Larry. (1980) Why Was the Logic of Scientific Discovery Abandoned? In Nickles (Ed.) (1980), 173-183.
  • Laudan (1979): Laudan, Larry. (1979) Historical Methodologies. In Asquith and Kyburg (Eds.) (1979).
  • Laudan (1978): Laudan, Larry. (1978) Ex-Huming Hacking. Erkenntnis 13 (1), 417-435.
  • Laudan (1977a): Laudan, Larry. (1977) Progress and Its Problems. University of California Press.
  • Laudan (1977b): Laudan, Larry. (1977) The Sources of Modern Methodology. In Butts and Hintikka (Eds.) (1977), 3-19.
  • Laudan (1976a): Laudan, Larry. (1976) The Methodological Foundations of Mach's Anti-Atomism and their Historical Roots. In Turnbull and Machamer (Eds.) (1976), 390-417.
  • Laudan (1976b): Laudan, Larry. (1976) Two Dogmas of Methodology. Philosophy of Science 43 (4), 585-597.
  • Laudan (1974a): Laudan, Larry. (1974) Induction and Probability in the 19th Century. Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics 74, 429-438.
  • Laudan (1973): Laudan, Larry. (1973) Peirce and the Trivialization of the Self-Correcting Thesis. In Giere and Westfall (Eds.) (1973), 275-306.
  • Laudan (1971c): Laudan, Larry. (1971) Towards a Reassessment of Comte's 'Méthode Positive'. Philosophy of Science 38 (1), 35-53.
  • Laudan (1971a): Laudan, Larry. (1971) William Whewell and the Consilience of Inductions. The Monist 55 (3), 368-391.
  • Laudan (1971b): Laudan, Larry. (1971) Reply to Mary Hesse. The Monist 55 (3), 525.
  • Laudan (1970a): Laudan, Larry. (1970) Commentary. In Stuewer (Ed.) (1970), 127-132; 230-238.
  • Laudan (1970b): Laudan, Larry. (1970) Thomas Reid and the Newtonian Turn of British Methodological Thought. In Butts and Davis (Eds.) (1970), 103-131.
  • Laudan (1969): Laudan, Larry. (1969) Introduction. In Rohault (1969), ix-xxiv.
  • Laudan (1968b): Laudan, Larry. (1968) Introduction. In Maclaurin (1968), ix-xxv.
  • Laudan (1968c): Laudan, Larry. (1968) The Vis viva Controversy, a Post-Morte. Isis 59 (2), 130-143.
  • Laudan (1968a): Laudan, Larry. (1968) Theories of Scientific Method from Plato to Mach: A Bibliographical Review. History of Science 7, 1-63.
  • Laudan (1967): Laudan, Larry. (1967) The Nature and Sources of Locke's Views on Hypotheses. Journal of the History of Ideas 28 (2), 211-223.
  • Laudan (1966a): Laudan, Larry. (1966) The clock metaphor and probabilism: The impact of Descartes on English methodological thought, 1650–65. Annals of Science 22 (2), 73-104.
  • Laudan (1966b): Laudan, Larry. (1966) Method and the Mechanical Philosophy. History of Science 5, 117-124.
  • Laudan (1965): Laudan, Larry. (1965) Grünbaum on "The Duhemian Argument". Philosophy of Science 32 (3/4), 295-299.

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Related Topics

Mechanism of Method Employment
Mechanism of Theory Acceptance
Mechanism of Scientific Change


References

  1. a b  Laudan, Larry. (1977) Progress and Its Problems. University of California Press.
  2. ^  Laudan, Larry. (1981) Science and Hypothesis. Historical Essays on Scientific Methodology. D. Reidel Publishing Company.
  3. ^  Laudan, Larry. (1984) Science and Values. University of California Press.
  4. ^  Laudan, Larry. (1996) Beyond Positivism and Relativism. Theory, Method, and Evidence. Westview Press.
  5. ^  Shapere, Dudley. (1980) The Character of Scientific Change. In Nickles (Ed.) (1980), 61-116.
  6. ^  Barseghyan, Hakob. (2015) The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer.
  7. ^  Worrall, John. (1988) Review: The Value of a Fixed Methodology. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 39, 263-275.
  8. ^  Laudan, Larry. (1989) If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 40, 369-375.
  9. ^  Worrall, John. (1989) Fix It and Be Damned: A Reply to Laudan. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 40, 376-388.