Larry Laudan
Laurens Lynn "Larry" Laudan was an American philosopher of science and epistemologist. He strongly criticized the traditions of positivism, realism, and relativism, and he defended a view of science as a privileged and progressive institution against challenges. Laudan's philosophical view of "research traditions" is seen as an important alternative to Imre Lakatos's "research programs".
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- Born in
- Austin
- Educated at
- Princeton UniversityUniversity of Kansas
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Charles Coulston Gillispie
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Philip L. Quinn
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1941
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