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Pessimistic Inductions: Four Varieties

K. Brad WrayCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 61-73 | Published online: 03 Nov 2015

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Moti Mizrahi. (2016) The History of Science as a Graveyard of Theories: A Philosophers’ Myth?. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 30:3, pages 263-278.
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Florian J. Boge. (2021) Incompatibility and the pessimistic induction: a challenge for selective realism. European Journal for Philosophy of Science 11:2.
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K. Brad Wray. (2021) Kuhn and the Contemporary Realism/Antirealism Debates. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 11:1, pages 72-92.
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Herman Aksom, Oksana Zhylinska & Tetiana Gaidai. (2020) Can institutional theory be refuted, replaced or modified?. International Journal of Organizational Analysis 28:1, pages 135-159.
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Elay Shech. (2022) Historical Inductions Meet the Material Theory. Philosophy of Science 86:5, pages 918-929.
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Moti Mizrahi. (2019) An Absurd Consequence of Stanford’s New Induction Over the History of Science: A Reply to Sterpetti. Axiomathes 29:5, pages 515-527.
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Finnur Dellsén. (2019) Should scientific realists embrace theoretical conservatism?. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 76, pages 30-38.
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Seungbae Park. (2019) The Absolute and Relative Pessimistic Inductions. Problemos 95, pages 94-104.
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Darrell P. Rowbottom. (2017) Scientific realism: what it is, the contemporary debate, and new directions. Synthese 196:2, pages 451-484.
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K. Brad Wray. (2016) Discarded theories: the role of changing interests. Synthese 196:2, pages 553-569.
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K. Brad Wray. 2018. Resisting Scientific Realism. Resisting Scientific Realism.
Jeffrey I. Seeman. (2018) From “multiple simultaneous independent discoveries” to the theory of “multiple simultaneous independent errors”: a conduit in science. Foundations of Chemistry 20:3, pages 219-249.
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K. Brad Wray. (2018) A new twist to the No Miracles Argument for the success of science. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 69, pages 86-89.
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Ludwig Fahrbach. (2016) Scientific revolutions and the explosion of scientific evidence. Synthese 194:12, pages 5039-5072.
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Seungbae Park. (2016) Extensional scientific realism vs. intensional scientific realism. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 59, pages 46-52.
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K. Brad Wray. (2016) Method and Continuity in Science. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 47:2, pages 363-375.
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