Testing Scientific Theories

I. Glymour's Bootstrapping Theory of Confirmation . . . 1

• "On Testing and Evidence" . . . 3
  Clark Glymour
• "Theory Comparison and Relevant Evidence" . . . 27
  Bas C. van Fraassen
• "Bootstrapping without Bootstraps" . . . 43
  Azon Edidin
• "Explanations of Irrelevance" . . . 55
  Paul Horwich

II. The Bayesian Perspective and the Problem of Old Evidence . . . 67

• "Why Glymour Is a Bayesian" . . . 69
  Roger Rosenkrantz
• "Old Evidence and Logical Omniscience in Bayesian
  Confirmation Theory" . . . 99
  Daniel Garber
• "Bayesianism with a Human Face" . . . 133
  Richard Jeffrey
• "Three Ways to Give a Probability Assignment a Memory" . . . 157
  Brian Skyrms

III. Evidence and Explanation . . . 163

• "Glymour on Evidence and Explanation" . . . 165
  Bas C. van Fraassen

IV. Historical Case Studies . . . 177

• "Newton's Demonstration of Universal Gravitation and Philosophical
  Theories of Confirmation" . . . 179
  Ronald Laymon
• "Realism and Instrumentalism in Pre-Newtonian Astronomy" . . . 201
  Michael R. Gardner

V. Some Alternative Views on Testing Theories . . . 267

• "Testing Theoretical Hypotheses . . . 269
  Ronald N. Giere
• "The Deductive Model: Does It Have Instances? . . . 299
  Henry Kyburg

VI. Testing Particular Theories . . . 313

• "Retrospective vs. Prospective Testing of Aetiological Hypotheses
  in Freudian Theory" . . . 315
  Adolf Grünbaum
• "Subjectivitv in Psychoanalytic Inference: The Nagging Persistence of
  Wilhem Fliess's Achensee Question" . . . 349
  Paul E. Meehl
• "Consistency Tests in Estimating the Completeness of the Fossil Record:
  A NeoPopperian Approach to Statistical Paleontology" . . . 413
  Paul E. Meehl

  Author Index . . . 477

  Subject Index . . . 481