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Leplin on Essentialism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Dudley Shapere
Dudley Shapere*
Affiliation:
Wake Forest University and The Institute for Advanced Study
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Abstract

Jarrett Leplin has recently criticized a number of aspects of my views of the aims and goals of science, of the rationale of scientific change, and of the consequent relations between science and the philosophy of science, and in particular of the methodology of the latter (Leplin 1984, 1987, 1988a, 1988b). Here I will respond to those criticisms, and also reply to some related criticisms made by other writers.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 58 , Issue 4 , December 1991 , pp. 655 - 677
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Copyright © 1991 The Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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This paper was written during a visit at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, an opportunity for which I am grateful.

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