Review Symposium : Laudan and the Problem-Solving Approach to Scientific Progress and Rationality [Book Review]

Philosophy of the Social Sciences 9 (4):466-474 (1979)
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Critical discussion of Larry Laudan's problem-solving approach to scientific progress and rationality as presented in his Progress and Its Problems.

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