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The Ravens Revisited
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There is more to the philosophy of science than principled descriptions of scientific activity, since there are also all the normative questions of justification and warrant, but the descriptive task is an important part of the discipline.Abstract:
Astronomers study the behaviour of the stars; philosophers of science study the behaviour of the astronomers. Philosophers of science, alongside historians and sociologists of science, are in the business of accounting for how science works and what it achieves. There is more to the philosophy of science than principled descriptions of scientific activity, since there are also all the normative questions of justification and warrant, but the descriptive task is an important part of the discipline and the primary focus of the present essay.read more
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A conciliatory answer to the paradox of the ravens.
William Peden,William Peden +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors distinguish between the familiar relation of confirmation simpliciter and what they call "predictive confirmation" and conclude that there is no sense in which the initial claims are both plausible and inconsistent.
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In Memoriam: Peter Lipton*
TL;DR: One of the world's best-loved philosophers of science, Peter Lipton, died from a heart attack on the evening of November 25, 2007, at the age of 53 as discussed by the authors.
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