SOPhiA 2022
Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis
Programm - Vortrag
Scientific Theories and Their Empirical Support
(Plenarvortrag, Englisch, Ort: TBA)
As traditionally conceived, experimental support for a theory is a form of evidential support, and evidential support is a form of confirmation.
Disentangling this concept cluster, in part through a new appreciation of Newton's methodology and the development of post-Newtonian theories, was a developing story during the last fifty years.
I will argue for a clear separation between empirical support of theories and confirmation.
Chair:
Zeit: 10:00-11:30, 07. September 2022 (Mittwoch)
Ort: HS E.002
Bas van Fraassen
(Princeton University, United States)
