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Progress and Its Problems is published
In Progress and Its Problems, Laudan described that science is an evolving process that accumulates more empirically validated evidence while solving conceptual anomalies at the same time. He charges philosophers of science with paying lip service to the view that "science is fundamentally a problem-solving activity". -
A Confutation of Convergent Realism is published
In his 1981 article, Laudan argued that that "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."This went hand in hand with his pessimistic induction argument against the claim that the cumulative success of science shows that science must truly describe reality.
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Beyond Positivism and Relativism is published
In this book, Laudan wrote that "the aim of science is to secure theories with a high problem-solving effectiveness" and that scientific progress is possible when empirical data is diminished. -
Danger Ahead is published
Larry Laudan, the famous author of the Book of Risks, compiled an astonishing assortment of surprising statistics about the way things really are. It perfectly complimented his theories and views on philosophy.
