Error and Inference Recent Exchanges on Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, and the Objectivity and Rationality of Science

includes index and biblioraphy

Introduction and Background Deborah G. Mayo and Aris Spanos i Central Goals, Themes, and Questions ii The Error-Statistical Philosophy 1 Learning from Error, Severe Testing, and the Growth of Theoretical Knowledge Deborah G. Mayo 2 The LifeofTheoryinthe New Exper imen talism Can Scientific Theories Be Warranted? Alan Chalmers Can Scientific Theories Be Warranted with Severity? Exchanges with Alan Chalmers Deborah G. Mayo 3 Revisiting Critical Rationalism Critical Rationalism, Explanation, and Severe Tests Alan Musgrave Toward Progressive Critical Rationalism Exchanges with Alan Musgrave Deborah G. Mayo 4 Theory Confirmation and Novel Evidence Error, Tests, and Theory Confirmation John Worrall An Ad Hoc Save of a Theory of Adhocness? Exchanges with John Worrall Deborah G. Mayo 5 Induction and Severe Testing Mill`s Sins or Mayo`s Errors? Peter Achinstein Sins of the Epistemic Probabilist Exchanges with Peter Achinstein Deborah G. Mayo 6 Theory Testing in Economics and the Error-Statistical Perspective Aris Spanos 7 New Perspectives on (Some Old) Problems of Frequentist Statistics i Frequentist Statistics as a Theory of Inductive Inference Deborah G. Mayo and David Cox ii Objectivity and Conditionality in Frequentist Inference David Cox and Deborah G. Mayo III An Error in the Argument from Conditionality and Sufficiency to the Likelihood Principle Deborah G. Mayo iv On a New Philosophy of Frequentist Inference Exchanges with David Cox and Deborah G. Mayo Aris Spanos 8 Causal Modeling, Explanation and Severe Testing i Explanation and Truth Clark Glymour ii Explanation and Testing Exchanges with Clark Glymour Deborah G. Mayo III Graphical Causal Modeling and Error Statistics Exchanges with Clark Glymour Aris Spanos 9 Error and Legal Epistemology Anomaly of Affirmative Defenses Lorry Laudan Error and the Law Exchanges with Larry Laudan Deborah G. Mayo