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Birth
Larry Laudan was born in Austin Texas. -
PhD
Larry took his PhD in Philosophy at Princeton University. -
Progress and Its Problems
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 -
A Confutation of Convergent
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." -
Beyond Positivism and Relativism
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. -
Laudan on Convergent Epistemic Realism
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Sources
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.