Underdetermination

Rescher, Nicholas (2008) Underdetermination. In [2009] Underdetermination in Science (Pittsburgh, 21-22, March 2009).

Abstract

Underdetermination can take many forms apart from the familiar case of the underdetermination of nature’s laws by the observed phenomena. Of particular interest here is the potential of underdetermination of nature’s phenomena by nature’s laws. The paper considers various ways in which this prospect might come to be realized, and goes on to consider some of the wider implications of this circumstance.