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Larry Laudan was born in Austin Texas.
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Larry took his PhD in Philosophy at Princeton University. -
Laudan maintained in Progress and Its Problems that science is an evolving process that accumulates more empirically validated evidence while solving conceptual anomalies at the same time -
Laudan wrote an article, titled "A Confutation of Convergent Realism". He wrote , "the history of science furnishes vast evidence of empirically successful theories that were later rejected; from subsequent perspectives, their unobservable terms were judged not to refer and thus, they cannot be regarded as true or even approximately true."
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In this collection of papers, several of which appear here for the first time, Larry Laudan argues that resolving this dilemma involves not some centrist compromise position but rather a conception of scientific knowledge that goes beyond both positivism and relativism. This conception must begin with the rejection of assumptions about knowledge that these apparently opposed positions hold in common. -
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Anjan. “Scientific Realism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-realism/#PesInd. Laudan, Larry, and Laudan, Professor Larry. Beyond Positivism And Relativism: Theory, Method, And Evidence. United Kingdom, Avalon Publishing, 1996. Laudan, Larry. “A Confutation of Convergent Realism.” Philosophy of Science, vol. 48, no. 1, Philosophy of Science Association, 1981, pp. 19–49, doi:10.1086/288975.