How does science progress

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Assignment:

How does science progress, if it does? That is, how can we ensure that new scientific theories will be better than older ones?

All the philosophers below address this question in one way or another. Choose any 1 thinker.

The most common ways of doing that are to lay out any 1 thinker's approach to this question and then critiquing it, or to lay out any 1 thinker's approach, explain a problem that arises for it, and then address that problem by arguing that the position can accommodate it, or that it doesn't need to.

James R. Brown, "Logical Positivism" from Who Rules in Science? An Opinionated Guide to the Wars
Ian Hacking, "Positivism", from Representing and Intervening
Anjan Chakravartty, "Scientific Realism"
Karl Popper, "Science: Conjectures and Refutations"
A. F. Chalmers, "The Limitations of Falsificationism", from What Is This Thing Called Science?
Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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