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Major Works
“The Clock Metaphor and Probabilism: The Impact of Descartes on British Methodological Thought, 1650-65,” Annals of Science, 22: 73-104. “Method and the Mechanical Philosophy,” History of Science, 5: 117-24. The Idea of Physical Theory from Galileo to Newton.
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The Sources of Modern Methodology,” in J. Hintikka and R. Butts, Eds., Historical and Philosophical Dimensions of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (Reidel, Dordrecht), 3-20. -
Publishes Progress and Its Problems
Progress and its Problems was Laudan's most influential and prized work. In it, he charges philosophers of science with not actively supporting the view that "science is fundamentally a problem-solving activity" without taking seriously the ideologies impact on the history of science and its philosophy, and not questioning certain problems in the study of history and how it relates to methodology of science. -
Wrote the article A Confutation of Convergent Realism
In it he stated that "the history of science furnishes vast evidence of empirically successful theories that were later rejected; from subsequent perspectives, their unobservable terms were judged not to refer and thus, they cannot be regarded as true or even approximately true. -
Published Beyond Positivism and Relativism,
Laudan wrote that "the aim of science is to secure theories with a high problem-solving effectiveness" and that scientific progress is possible when empirical data is diminished. ".Larry Laudan argues that resolving this dilemma involves not some centrist compromise position but rather a conception of scientific knowledge that goes beyond both positivism and relativism
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The Publishing of Science and Hypothesis
This book was concerned with examining how the method of hypothesis came to be the ruling orthodoxy in the philosophy of science and the quasi-official methodology of the scientific community covering different figures and different periods.
