What is scientific progress? On Alexander Bird's epistemic account of scientific progress, an
episode in science is progressive precisely when there is more scientific knowledge at the …

Roughly, instrumentalism is the view that science is primarily, and should primarily be, an
instrument for furthering our practical ends. It has fallen out of favour because historically …

What is scientific progress? This paper advances an interpretation of this question, and an
account that serves to answer it (thus interpreted). Roughly, the question is here understood …

Scientists are constantly making observations, carrying out experiments, and analyzing
empirical data. Meanwhile, scientific theories are routinely being adopted, revised …

Is there progress in philosophy? If so, how much? Philosophers have recently argued for a
wide range of answers to these questions, from the view that there is no progress …

What constitutes cognitive scientific progress? This Element begins with an extensive survey
of the contemporary debate on how to answer this question. It provides a blow-by-blow …

The epistemic conception of scientific progress equates progress with accumulation of
scientific knowledge. I argue that the epistemic conception fails to fully capture scientific …

In their attempt to defend philosophy from accusations of uselessness made by prominent
scientists, such as Stephen Hawking, some philosophers respond with the charge of …

First, I argue that scientific progress is possible in the absence of increasing verisimilitude in
science's theories. Second, I argue that increasing theoretical verisimilitude is not the …

I defend a novel account of scientific progress centered around justification. Science
progresses, on this account, where there is a change in justification. I consider three options …