Philosophy of Science: A Unified Approach combines a general introduction to philosophy of
science with an integrated survey of all its important subfields. As the book's subtitle …

An inquiry is a search for the truth of some matter. A person may embark on an inquiry for all
manner of reasons: to relieve boredom, to satisfy a client, to help make gadgets, to win the …

Kenneth Arrow's “impossibility” theorem—or “general possibility” theorem, as he called it—
answers a very basic question in the theory of collective decision-making. Say there are …

In this paper we provide a compact presentation of the verisimilitudinarian approach to
scientific progress (VS, for short) and defend it against the sustained attack recently mounted …

Scientific realists use the “no miracle argument” to show that the empirical and pragmatic
success of science is an indicator of the ability of scientific theories to give true or truthlike …

Abstract Theory change is a central concern in contemporary epistemology and philosophy
of science. In this paper, we investigate the relationships between two ongoing research …

This article understands abductive inference as encompassing several special patterns of
inference to the best explanation whose structure determines a promising explanatory …

Theories of verisimilitude have routinely been classified into two rival camps—the content
approach and the likeness approach—and these appear to be motivated by very different …

Popper's original definition of truthlikeness relied on a central insight: that truthlikeness
combines truth and information, in the sense that a proposition is closer to the truth the more …

According to the comparative Bayesian concept of confirmation, rationalized versions of
creationism come out as empirically confirmed. From a scientific viewpoint, however, they …