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Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science
In recent years, many members of the intellectual community have embraced a radical relativism regarding knowledge in general and scientific knowledge...
An Essay in Legal Epistemology
Beginning with the premise that the principal function of a criminal trial is to find out the truth about a crime, Larry Laudan examines the rules of ...
Theory, Method, And Evidence
With the decline of logical positivism after 1950, much work in the philosophy of science has careened toward an uncritical relativistic approach. Man...
Historical Essays on Scientific Methodology
This book consists of a collection of essays written between 1965 and 1981. Some have been published elsewhere; others appear here for the first time....
The Aims of Science and Their Role in Scientific Debate
Laudan constructs a fresh approach to a longtime problem for the philosopher of science: how to explain the simultaneous and widespread presence of bo...
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The Risks You Really Face on Life's Highway
Larry Laudan takes a fresh look at the risks and odds we all face every day. This time out, the author of the popular Book of Risks has compiled an as...
Fascinating Facts About the Chances We Take Every Day
Did you know that your chances of dying of rabies this year are less than your chances of being hit by a falling airplane? Guaranteed to pique your cu...
Rethinking Trials and Errors?
This is a book about the law's failure as a system of empirical inquiry. While the US Supreme Court repeatedly says that the aim of a trial is to find...