Laudan, Larry

Laudan, Larry. Science and Values the Aims of Science and Their Role in Scientific Debate. Berkeley University of California Press, 1984. 

Laudan, Larry. "Towards a Reassessment of Comte s Mfithode Positive. " Philosophy of Science 38 (1971) 35-53. 

This is actually the pessimistic meta-induction associated with Larry Laudan among other philosophers. L. Laudan, A Confutation of Convergent Realism, Philosophy of Science, 48 1-49, 1981. 

Two leading current proponents of naturalism include Ronald Giere and Larry Laudan (Giere 1985,1989 Laudan 1987,1990). Perhaps, the main distinction between... 

In order to pursue this question I focus on a much cited article in the literature, namely, Larry Laudan s A Confutation of Convergent Realism (Laudan 1981). I will take up some of his points in order to see whether the case of atomic orbitals casts any new light on the issue or whether it might even serve as a different kind of example. I do this because I believe that a stronger case can be made for divorcing the question of whether theoretical terms refer from the question of the success or otherwise of the theories in which such terms are featured. 

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