Larry Laudan

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Larry Laudan is affiliated with the following schools: University of Texas at Austin, University College London, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Princeton University, University of Kansas, University of Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech

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Larry Laudan

Philosophy

#648

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#1259

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#294

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Epistemology

#74

World Rank

#95

Historical Rank

#37

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Logic

#812

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#1356

Historical Rank

#289

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PhD Philosophy Princeton University
Masters Philosophy Princeton University

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According to Wikipedia, Larry Laudan was an American philosopher of science and epistemologist. He strongly criticized the traditions of positivism, realism, and relativism, and he defended a view of science as a privileged and progressive institution against popular challenges. Laudan's philosophical view of "research traditions" is seen as an important alternative to Imre Lakatos's "research programs".

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Larry Laudan's Published Works

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Progress and its problems: Toward a theory of scientific growth (1978) (1234)
A Confutation of Convergent Realism (1981) (1199)
Progress and Its Problems (1977) (931)
Science and Values: The Aims of Science and Their Role in Scientific Debate (1984) (447)
Science and Values (1986) (388)
The Demise of the Demarcation Problem (1983) (320)
Beyond positivism and relativism : theory, method and evidence (1997) (301)
Empirical Equivalence and Underdetermination (1991) (246)
Beyond Positivism And Relativism (1996) (194)
Science and Relativism: Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science (1990) (164)
Science and Hypothesis (1981) (163)
Scrutinizing Science: Empirical Studies of Scientific Change (1992) (130)
Why was the Logic of Discovery Abandoned (1980) (123)
Truth, Error, and Criminal Law: An Essay in Legal Epistemology (2006) (115)
Scientific change: Philosophical models and historical research (1986) (114)
The Pseudo-Science of Science? (1984) (108)
Science and Hypothesis: Historical Essays on Scientific Methodology (1981) (95)
Determination underdeterred: reply to kukla (1993) (93)
Physics, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis (1983) (85)
II.1 The Pseudo-Science of Science? (1981) (84)
Two Dogmas of Methodology (1976) (69)
The Epistemic, the Cognitive, and the Social (2004) (66)
William Whewell on the Consilience of Inductions (1971) (58)
The Vis viva Controversy, a Post-Mortem (1968) (57)
Explaining the Success of Science: Beyond Epistemic Realism and Relativism (1984) (56)
Realism without the Real (1984) (54)
Testing Theories of Scientific Change (1988) (52)
Dominance and the Disunity of Method: Solving the Problems of Innovation and Consensus (1989) (50)
Thomas Reid and the Newtonian Turn of British Methodological Thought (1981) (39)
Physics, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis Essays in Honor of Adolf Grünbaum (1983) (39)
Aim-less epistemology? (1990) (37)
Commentary: Science at the Bar—Causes for Concern (1982) (27)
Peirce and the Trivialization of the Self-Corrective Thesis (1981) (24)
IS REASONABLE DOUBT REASONABLE? (2003) (24)
The Rules of Trial, Political Morality, and the Costs of Error: Or, Is Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Doing More Harm than Good? (2011) (23)
How about Bust? Factoring Explanatory Power Back into Theory Evaluation (1997) (23)
THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE: MATERIAL OR PROBATORY? (2005) (21)
Methodology's Prospects (1986) (21)
Normative Naturalism (1990) (20)
Thoughts on HPS: 20 years later (1989) (19)
The Devastating Impact of Prior Crimes Evidence – And Other Myths of the Criminal Justice Process (2010) (19)
Strange Bedfellows: Inference to the Best Explanation and the Criminal Standard of Proof (2007) (17)
Re-Thinking the Criminal Standard of Proof: Seeking Consensus about the Utilities of Trial Outcomes (2009) (17)
If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It (1989) (17)
Views of Progress: Separating the Pilgrims from the Rakes (1980) (17)
The Philosophy of Progress... (1978) (16)
Some problems facing intuitionist meta-methodologies (1986) (14)
The Clock Metaphor and Hypotheses: The Impact of Descartes on English Methodological Thought, 1650–1670 (1981) (13)
Damn the Consequences (1995) (13)
Induction and Probability in the Nineteenth Century (1973) (12)
Two puzzles about science: Reflections on some crises in the philosophy and sociology of science (1982) (12)
The Sources of Modern Methodology (1977) (12)
Towards a Reassessment of Comte’s ‘Méthode Positive’ (1971) (11)
A Note on Collins's Blend of Relativism and Empiricism (1982) (11)
More on Bloor (1982) (10)
Relativism, naturalism and reticulation (1987) (10)
The Book of Risks: Fascinating Facts About the Chances We Take Every Day (1994) (10)
Deadly Dilemmas II: Bail and Crime (2008) (9)
Deadly Dilemmas III: Some Kind Words for Preventive Detention (2011) (9)
Epistemic Crises and Justification Rules (2001) (9)
Is it Finally Time to Put 'Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt' Out to Pasture? (2011) (8)
Mind and medicine : problems of explanation and evaluation in psychiatry and the biomedical sciences (1983) (8)
Eyewitness Identifications (2012) (7)
The Epistemology of Light: Some Methodological Issues in the Subtle Fluids Debate (1981) (7)
Is Epistemology Adequate to the Task of Rational Theory Evaluation (2000) (7)
The re-emergence of hyphenated history-and-philosophy-of-science and the testing of theories of scientific change. (2016) (7)
Eyewitness Identifications: One More Lesson on the Costs of Excluding Relevant Evidence (2012) (7)
The Elementary Epistemic Arithmetic of Criminal Justice (2008) (6)
Need Verdicts Come in Pairs? (2009) (5)
Ex-huming Hacking (1978) (5)
Danger Ahead: The Risks You Really Face on Life's Highway (1997) (5)
The Rational Weight of the Scientific Past: Forging Fundamental Change in a Conservative Discipline (1989) (5)
Truth, Error, and Criminal Law: Preface (2006) (5)
Problems, truth, and consistency (1982) (4)
Hume (and Hacking) on Induction (1981) (4)
Kuhn’s Critique of Methodology (1985) (4)
Ernst Mach’s Opposition to Atomism (1981) (3)
Are All Theories Equally Good? A Dialogue (1988) (3)
John Locke on Hypotheses: Placing the Essay in the ‘Scientific Tradition’ (1981) (3)
Waves, Particles, Independent Tests and the Limits of Inductivism (1992) (3)
Towards a Reassessment of Comte's 'Méthode Positive' (1971) (2)
Anomalous Anomalies (1981) (2)
Invention and Justification (1983) (2)
Different Strokes for Different Folks: Fixing the Error Pattern in Criminal Prosecutions by “Empiricizing” the Rules of Criminal Law and Taking False Acquittals and Serial Offenders Seriously (2018) (2)
For Method: Or, Against Feyerabend (1989) (2)
Truth, Error, and Criminal Law: Silent Defendants, Silent Witnesses, and Lobotomized Jurors (2006) (2)
Conceptual problems re-visited (1988) (2)
Legal Epistemology: The Anomaly of Affirmative Defenses (2008) (2)
Abstract of Comments: Adrift with NOA (1984) (1)
Book reviews-beyond positivism and relativism: Theory, method, and evidence (1998) (1)
Truth, Error, and Criminal Law: Dubious Motives for Flawed Rules: The Clash between Values (2006) (1)
The Social Contract and the Rules of Trial: Re-Thinking Procedural Rules (2008) (1)
The Sources of Modern Methodology: Two Models of Change (1981) (1)
Truth, Error, and Criminal Law: Double Jeopardy and False Acquittals: Letting Felons and Judges off the Hook? (2006) (1)
Error and Inference: Error and Legal Epistemology (2009) (0)
Taking the Ratio of Differences Seriously: The Multiple Offender and the Standard of Proof, or, Different Strokes for Serial Folks (2009) (0)
How the Social Contract Is Ignored and Undermined by the Rules of Trial, and How We Might Fix that Problem - Sessió 3 - (2015) (0)
THE DISTRIBUTION OF ERROR (2006) (0)
The Sounds of Silence (2012) (0)
Table of Contents-Issue 1 (2021) (0)
The Unraveling of Reasonable Doubt (2006) (0)
Truth, Error, and Criminal Law: Confessions, Poison Fruit, and Other Exclusions (2006) (0)
Truth, Error, and Criminal Law: FLAWED RULES OF EVIDENCE AND PROCEDURE (2006) (0)
A Revisionist Note on the Methodological Significance of Galilean Mechanics (1981) (0)
Truth, Error, and Criminal Law: Innocence, the Burden of Proof, and the Puzzle of Affirmative Defenses (2006) (0)
Different Strokes for Different Folks (2017) (0)
Essays in Honor of Adolf Grilnbaum (2016) (0)
Pierre Duhem : Between Physics and Metaphysics (2017) (0)
A Note on Induction and Probability in the 19th Century (1981) (0)
EVIDENCE , AND THE COURTS Morgan Cloud 3 I . INNOCENCE DEADLY DILEMMAS II : BAIL AND CRIME (2018) (0)
Volume Information (1981) (0)
The Elementary EpistemicArithmetic of the LawII: The Inadequate Resources ofMoral Theory for Dealing with the Criminal Law (2011) (0)
Truth, Error, and Criminal Law: Thinking about Error in the Law (2006) (0)
ARTIFICIAL EXAMPLES OF EMPIRICAL EQUIVALENCE1 (2017) (0)
Science and Valves (1985) (0)
Books Received (1989) (0)
Convergence or Divergence in the Evolution of (Criminal) Rights? A Case Study of the Multiple Incoherencies of the Presumption of Innocence (2013) (0)
Why asymmetric rules of procedure make it impossible to calculate a rationally warranted standard of proof (2015) (0)
Truth, Error, and Criminal Law: Evaluating Evidence and Procedures (2006) (0)
Reply to Mary Hesse (1971) (0)
Scientific Realism: A Critical Reappraisal. Nicholas Rescher (1989) (0)
Refutations of the Two Pessimistic Inductions Abstract Both the pessimistic inductions over scientific theories and over scientists are built upon what I call proportional pessimism: as theories are discarded, the inductive rationale for concluding (2016) (0)
The strategies of real science. (1977) (0)
Caloric: Centre or Offstage? (2007) (0)
Fixing the Standard of Proof (2006) (0)
JOSEPH RO USE* PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND THE PERSISTENT NARRATIVES OF MODERNITY (1991) (0)
Detecting Error, Learning from Our Mistakes, and the Appellate Asymmetry (2011) (0)
The History of Science and The Philosophy of Science (2020) (0)

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