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Falsificationist Confirmation

Sprenger, Jan (2007) Falsificationist Confirmation. [Preprint]

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    Abstract

    Existing accounts of hypothetico-deductive confirmation are able to circumvent the classical objections (e.g. the tacking problems), but the confirmation of conjunctions of hypotheses brings them into trouble. Therefore this paper develops a new, falsificationist account of qualitative confirmation by means of Ken Gemes' theory of content parts. The new approach combines the hypothetico-deductive view with falsificationist and instance confirmation principles. It is considerably simpler than the previous suggestions and gives a better treatment of conjunctive hypotheses while solving the tacking problems equally well.

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    Item Type: Preprint
    Keywords: Confirmation, Induction, Hypothetico-Deductivism, Content Parts
    Subjects: General Issues > Confirmation/Induction
    Depositing User: Jan Sprenger
    Date Deposited: 01 Nov 2007
    Last Modified: 05 Apr 2011 07:32
    Item ID: 3635
    URI: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/3635

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