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  • We are delighted to announce the appointment of Sara Bernstein as our new Assistant Professor starting in the Fall of 2010.  http://www.u.arizona.edu/~sjbern/
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September 2010

  • Sep 10, 2010

    • What Is Science?
    • Testing What, if anything, makes science different from other forms of inquiry? This talk will develop the view that science's exceptional epistemic power comes from its putting great weight on a form of inductive reasoning that I call empirical testing. I will develop a theory of the nature of empirical testing, that is, a theory of what makes empirical testing different from other forms of sound inductive inference. The theory mixes Hempel's account of confirmation with more recent ideas about causal inquiry. I then make some suggestions as to why this especially "empirical" sort of inference gives science certain advantages, and certain disadvantages.

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