Science is increasingly becoming automated. Tasks yet to be fully automated include the
conjecturing, modifying, extending and testing of hypotheses. At present scientists have an …

What does it mean for a hypothesis to be ad hoc? One prominent account has it that ad hoc
hypotheses have no independent empirical support. Others have viewed ad hoc judgements …

What is wrong with ad hoc hypotheses? Ever since Popper's falsifƗ cationist account of
adhocness, there has been a lively philosophical discussion about what constitutes …

When a theory is confronted with a problem such as a paradox, an empirical anomaly, or a
vicious regress, one may change part of the theory to solve that problem. Sometimes the …

1 Introduction. 2 Three Historically Relevant Senses of'ad hoc Auxiliary Hypothesis' in
Ascending Order of Logical Strength. 3 Is There a Purely Logical, Non-pragmatic …

A scientific dispute may turn crucially upon whether or not a given hypothesis is ad hoc. So,
it is extremely important to determine what makes a hypothesis ad hoc. Yet, previous …

Karl Popper defines an ad hoc hypothesis as one that is introduced to immunize a theory
from some (or all) refutation but which cannot be tested independently. He has also …

Philosophers interested in Artificial Intelligence have sometimes voiced the feeling that
those working in the theoretical areas of philosophy can, should, and may eventually have …

This note alleges that there is a dichotomy between theoretical and experimental work in
Artificial Intelligence (AI). The reasons for this dichotomy are discussed, and AI is compared …

Automated scientific discovery is a discipline which lies at the boarder of artificial
intelligence, natural sciences and philosophy of science, and deals with the application of …