"Testing Scientific Theories " was first published in 1984.
Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make
long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published
unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press
editions.
Since much of a scientist's work consists of constructing
arguments to show how experiments and observation bear on a
particular theory, the methodologies of theory testing and their
philosophical underpinnings are of vital concern to philosophers of
science. Confirmation of scientific theories is the topic of Clark
Glymour's important book "Theory and Evidence," published in 1980.
His negative thesis is that the two most widely discussed accounts
of the methodology of theory testing - hypothetico-deductivism and
Bayesianism - are flawed. The issues Glymour raises and his
alternative "bootstrapping" method provided the focus for a
conference sponsored by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of
Science and for this book. As editor John Earman says in his
preface, the papers presented in "Testing Scientific Theories "
germinate so many new ideas that philosophers of science will reap
the harvest for years to come.
Topics covered include a discussion of Glymour's bootstrapping
theory of confirmation, the Bayesian perspective and the problems
of old evidence, evidence and explanation, historical case studies,
alternative views on testing theories, and testing particular
theories, including psychoanalytic hypotheses and hypotheses about
the completeness of the fossil record.
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