This monograph presents new ideas in nomic truth approximation. It
features original and revised papers from a (formal) philosopher of
science who has studied the concept for more than 35 years. Over
the course of time, the author's initial ideas evolved. He
discovered a way to generalize his first theory of nomic truth
approximation, viz. by dropping an unnecessarily strong assumption.
In particular, he first believed to have to assume that theories
were maximally specific in the sense that they did not only exclude
certain conceptual possibilities, but also that all non-excluded
possibilities were in fact claimed to be nomically possible. Now,
he argues that the exclusion claim alone, or for that matter the
inclusion claim alone, is sufficient to motivate the formal
definition of being closer to the nomic truth. The papers collected
here detail this generalized view of nomic truthlikeness or
verisimilitude. Besides this, the book presents, in adapted form,
the relation with several other topics, such as, domain revision,
aesthetic progress, abduction, inference to the best explanation,
pragmatic aspects, probabilistic methods, belief revision and
epistemological positions, notably constructive realism. Overall,
the volume presents profound insight into nomic truth
approximation. This idea seeks to determine how one theory can be
closer to, or more similar to, the truth about what is nomically,
e.g. physically, chemically, biologically, possible than another
theory. As a result, it represents the ultimate goal of theory
oriented empirical science. Theo Kuipers is the author of Studies
in Inductive Probability and Rational Expectation (1978), From
Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism (2000) and Structures in
Science (2001). He is the volume-editor of the Handbook on General
Philosophy of Science (2007). In 2005 there appeared two volumes of
Essays in Debate with Theo Kuipers, entitled Confirmation,
Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation and Cognitive
Structures in Scientific Inquiry.
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