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Bridging a Fault Line: On underdetermination and the ampliative adequacy of competing theories
In Abrol Fairweather (ed.), Virtue Epistemology Naturalized. Synthese Library. pp. 227-245 (2014)
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There are at least twelve major virtues of good theories: evidential accuracy, causal adequacy, explanatory depth, internal consistency, internal coherence, universal coherence, beauty, simplicity, unification, durability, fruitfulness, and applicability. These virtues are best classified into four classes: evidential, coherential, aesthetic, and diachronic. Each virtue class contains at least three virtues that sequentially follow a repeating pattern of progressive disclosure and expansion. Systematizing the theoretical virtues in this manner clarifies each virtue and suggests how they might have a coordinated and cumulative (...) |