Laurens Lynn "Larry" Laudan (/ˈlaʊdən/; October 16, 1941 – August 23, 2022) was an American philosopher of science and epistemologist. He strongly criticized...
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implicitly used in making observations). Larry Laudan has also made two important contributions to the debate. Laudan believed that something akin to paradigms...
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Demarcation problem (section Laudan)
Aristotle, most clearly distinguished the scientific way of knowing. — Larry Laudan, "The Demise of the Demarcation Problem" (1983) G. E. R. Lloyd noted...
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Rachel Laudan (born 1944) is a food historian, author of the prizewinning Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History. Laudan grew up on a traditional...
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Philosophy of Science (1990), philosopher of science and epistemologist Larry Laudan said that the prevailing type of philosophy taught at universities in...
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hostility to criticism as one of the major features of pseudoscience. Larry Laudan has suggested pseudoscience has no scientific meaning and is mostly used...
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Heller Jaakko Hintikka Paul Hoyningen-Huene Philip Kitcher Ursula Klein Larry Laudan John Lennox Isaac Levi Peter Lipton Helen Longino Elisabeth Lloyd Tim...
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true or truthlike) via historical counterexample. Using meta-induction, Larry Laudan argues that if past scientific theories which were successful were found...
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philosophers of science—including Paul Feyerabend, Imre Lakatos, and Larry Laudan—have all but unanimously rejected inductivism. Those who assert scientific...
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Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge, 1975/1993 Larry Laudan, Progress and its Problems: Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth, 1978...
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