Novel Predictions Special Issue
Dear Colleagues,
I'd like to bring to your attention a new special issue.
Title: Novel Predictions
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Vol. 45, No.
1, pp. 43-108.
Edited by Ioannis Votsis, Ludwig Fahrbach, and Gerhard
Schurz
Contributions by:
Eric Christian Barnes
Martin Carrier
Deborah Mayo
Cornelis Menke
Samuel Schindler
Gerhard Schurz
Ioannis Votsis
John Worrall
Major themes explored include: novel predictions,
predictivism, accommodationism, use-novelty, confirmation theory, ad hoc and
post hoc hypotheses, severe testing and realism.
Table of Contents:
'Introduction: Novel Predictions'
Pages 43-45
Ioannis Votsis, Ludwig Fahrbach, Gerhard Schurz
'The roots of predictivism'
Pages 46-53
Eric Christian Barnes
'Prediction and accommodation revisited'
Pages 54-61
John Worrall
'Novelty, coherence, and Mendeleev’s periodic table'
Pages 62-69
Samuel Schindler
'Objectivity in confirmation: Post hoc monsters and novel
predictions'
Pages 70-78
Ioannis Votsis
'Some surprising facts about (the problem of) surprising
facts'
Pages 79-86
D. Mayo
'Bayesian pseudo-confirmation, use-novelty, and genuine
confirmation'
Pages 87-96
Gerhard Schurz
'Prediction in context: On the comparative epistemic
merit of predictive success'
Pages 97-102
Martin Carrier
'Does the miracle argument embody a base rate fallacy?'
Pages 103-108
Cornelis Menke
Best wishes,
Ioannis Votsis
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Dr. Ioannis Votsis
Assistant Director and Research Fellow
Düsseldorf Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science
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