Testing Scientific Theories

Contents......Page 8
I . Glymour's Bootstrapping Theory of Confirmation......Page 10
"On Testing and Evidence"......Page 12
"Theory Comparison and Relevant Evidence"......Page 36
"Bootstrapping without Bootstraps"......Page 52
"Explanations of Irrelevance"......Page 64
II. The Bayesian Perspective and the Problem of Old Evidence......Page 76
"Why Glymour Is a Bayesian"......Page 78
"Old Evidence and Logical Omniscience in Bayesian Confirmation Theory"......Page 108
"Bayesianism with a Human Face"......Page 142
"Three Ways to Give a Probability Assignment a Memory"......Page 166
III. Evidence and Explanation......Page 172
"Glymour on Evidence and Explanation"......Page 174
IV. Historical Case Studies......Page 186
"Newton's Demonstration of Universal Gravitation and Philosophical Theories of Confirmation"......Page 188
"Realism and Instrumentalism in Pre-Newtonian Astronomy"......Page 210
V. Some Alternative Views on Testing Theories......Page 276
"Testing Theoretical Hypotheses"......Page 278
"The Deductive Model: Does It Have Instances?"......Page 308
VI. Testing Particular Theories......Page 322
"Retrospective vs. Prospective Testing of Aetiological Hypotheses in Freudian Theory"......Page 324
"Subjectivity in Psychoanalytic Inference: The Nagging Persistence of Wilhelm Fliess's Achensee Question"......Page 358
"Consistency Tests in Estimating the Completeness of the Fossil Record: A Neo-Popperian Approach to Statistical Paleontology"......Page 422
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