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Perspectives on Science archives from June 1997
The Mill-Whewell debate: much ado about induction. (John Stuart Mill, William Whewell)
June 22, 1997... This article examines the nineteenth century debate about scientific method between John Stuart Mill and William Whewell. Contrary to standard interpretations (given, for example, by Achinstein, Buchdahl, Butts, and Laudan), I argue that their...
The electrical universe: grand cosmological theory versus mundane experiments.
June 22, 1997... This article examines in detail a remarkable but short-lived cosmological theory of 1959. The theory depended crucially on a hypothesis that could be, and was, tested in the laboratory. I use the case to discuss the nature of testing in...
Rational communities.
June 22, 1997... I critically examine Miriam Solomon's critique of individualist normative accounts of scientific rationality and her own "social" account of scientific rationality that takes communities to be the locus of rationality. I argue that (a)...
Current issues in the philosophy of biology.
June 22, 1997... If philosophy of science as an official subfield in academic philosophy began with the Vienna Circle, philosophy of biology is an even more recent addendum to the traditional curriculum. At the University of California, Davis, in the 1970s,...
