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The paper argues that there is no logic of scientific discovery, but there is an inference-like pattern that we can model as a 'logic', retrospectively, once a discovery has been successfully made. While accepting a kind of epistemological pluralism and opportunism, the claim will be advocated that a convergent and reasonably wide-ranging normative 'logic' might be constructed, one that might even...
The author explores the interaction between theory-based interpretations of scientific evidence and constraints on theories provided by that evidence. Interpretation is often viewed as a source of error and a reason for scepticism about scientific results. But, he argues, while interpretation does generate epistemic risk, it also points to new sources of evidence that can constrain our theories. This...
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