Underdetermination. An Essay on Evidence and the Limits of
Natural Knowledge is a wide-ranging study of the thesis that
scientific theories are systematically "underdetermined" by the
data they account for. This much-debated thesis is a thorn in the
side of scientific realists and methodologists of science alike and
of late has been vigorously attacked. After analyzing the
epistemological and ontological aspects of the controversy in
detail, and reviewing pertinent logical facts and selected
scientific cases, Bonk carefully examines the merits of arguments
for and against the thesis. Along the way, he investigates
methodological proposals and recent theories of confirmation, which
promise to discriminate among observationally equivalent theories
on evidential grounds. He explores sympathetically but critically
W.V.Quine and H. Putnama (TM)s arguments for the thesis, the
relationship between indeterminacy and underdetermination, and
possibilities for a conventionalist solution.
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