SOPhiA 2022
Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis
Programme - Talk
Scientific Theories and Their Empirical Support
(Plenary Lecture, English, Location: HS E.002)
s 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: Raimund Pils
Time: 10:00-11:30, 07 September 2022 (Wednesday)
Location: HS E.002
Bas van Fraassen
(Princeton University, USA)
