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The new Historicists
Larry Laudan was one of the philosophers of science like Thomas Kuhn called "new historicists"( N. Thomas, 2017). The Merriam Webster definition of new historicism, "A method of literary criticism that emphasizes the historicity of a text by relating it to the configurations of power, society, or ideology in a given time". They believed in the idea of one ruling paradigm, however one of the challenge was creating a model of that change from paradigm to paradigm. -
Notable work
Laudan's most notable bit of work was a book called Progress and Its Problems. Originally published in 1977, the book is Laudan's criticism of the philosophy of science.He focuses on problem solving and expanding on the notion of paradigm shifts in this book to relate it with Thomas Khun's Here you can find the book on Google. ideas.https://books.google.pl/books/about/Progress_and_Its_Problems.html?id=Y7UwDwAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y -
Epistemology
Another area of Laudan's work with philosophy is legal Epistemology He wrote a book called Truth, Error, and Criminal Law: An Essay in Legal Epistemology. Epistemology is generally defined as "the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity". “Epistemology.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epistemology. Accessed 6 Sep. 2020. -
Teaching Career
Larry Laudan had a bachelors in physics and a PhD in philosophy. For his teaching career he has taught at University of Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech, University of Hawaii, and finally where he currently teaches University of Texas Law School. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Larry_Laudan