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  1. The assessment of auxiliary hypotheses.Jarrett Leplin - 1982 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 33 (3):235-249.
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  • Independent testability: The Michelson-Morley and Kennedy-Thorndike experiments.Ronald Laymon - 1980 - Philosophy of Science 47 (1):1-37.
    Grunbaum has argued that the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction hypothesis is not ad hoc since the Kennedy-Thorndike experiment can be used to provide a test that is significantly different from that provided by the Michelson-Morley experiment. In the first part of the paper, I show that the differences claimed by Grunbaum to hold between these two experiments are not sufficient for establishing independent testability. A dilemma is developed: either the Kennedy-Thorndike experiment, because of experimental realities, cannot test the uncontracted Fresnel aether theory, (...)
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  • Productive Thinking.Max Wertheimer - 1946 - Philosophical Review 55 (3):298.
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  • The Concept of an "Ad Hoc" Hypothesis.Jarrett Leplin - 1975 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 5 (4):309.
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  • The Michelson-Morley and Kennedy-Thorndike experiments.Herman Erlichson - 1981 - Philosophy of Science 48 (4):620-622.
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