Introduction . . . 3
Seek and Ye Might Find . . . 22
Arthur L. Caplan
The Psychoanalytic Enterprise in Scientific Perspective . . . 41
Adolf Grunbaum
On the Nature of Theories: A Neurocomputational Perspective . . . 59
Paul M. Churchland
Are Economic Kinds Natural? . . . 102
Alan Nelson
Foundational Physics and Empiricist Critique . . . 136
Lawrence Sklar
Theories as Mere Conventions . . . 158
Henry E. Kyburg, Jr.
Rationality and Objectivity in Science, or Tom Kuhn Meets
Tom Bayes . . . 175
Wesley C. Salmon
Bayesian Problems of Old Evidence . . . 205
Ellery Eells
Fitting Your Theory to the Facts: Probably Not Such a Bad
Thing After All . . . 225
Colin Howson
The Value of Knowledge . . . 245
Brian Skyrms
Demystifying Underdetermination . . . 267
Larry Laudan
Dubbing and Redubbing: The Vulnerability of
Rigid Designation . . . 298
Thomas S. Kuhn
Scientific Revolutions and Scientific Rationality:
The Case of the Elderly Holdout . . . 319
John Worrall
Realism, Approximate Truth, and Philosophical Method . . . 355
Richard Boyd
Contrastive Empiricism . . . 392
Elliott Sober
Contributors . . . 413
Consensus Institute Staff . . . 417
Author Index . . . 421
Subject Index . . . 425