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Popper's Shifting Appraisal of Evolutionary Theory
Elgin, Mehmet; Sober, Elliott (Univ Chicago Press, 2017)Karl Popper argued in 1974 that evolutionary theory contains no testable laws and is therefore a metaphysical research program. Four years later, he said that he had changed his mind. Here we seek to understand Popper's ... -
Theory-laden observation and incommensurability
Elgin, Mehmet (Vydavatelstvo Slovenskej Akad Vied Veda, 2008)In this Taper, I investigate the logical relation between two claims: (1) observations are theory-laden(1) and (2) there is no empirical common ground upon which to evaluate successive scientific theories that belong to ...