Ronald Laymon (laymon)

Contributions à Philosophie.ch

Bibliography

Laymon, Ronald. 1976. “The Michelson-Morley Experiment: Descriptive Dependence on To-be-tested Theories.” in Motion and Time, Space and Matter, edited by Peter K. Machamer and Robert G. Turnbull, pp. 436–464. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press.
Laymon, Ronald. 1978. “Newton’s Bucket Experiment.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 16(4): 399–413.
Laymon, Ronald. 1980. “Idealization, Explanation and Confirmation.” in PSA 1980: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Ronald N. Giere, pp. 336–350. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Laymon, Ronald. 1982a. “Scientific Realism and the Hierarchical Counterfactual Path from Data to Theory.” in PSA 1982: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Thomas Nickles, pp. 107–121. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association. Reprinted in Leplin (1984) as “The Path from Data to Theory” .
Laymon, Ronald. 1982b. “Transubstantiation: Test Case for Descartes’s Theory of Space.” in Problems of Cartesianism, edited by Thomas M. Lennon, John M. Nicholas, and John W. Davis, pp. 149–170. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Laymon, Ronald. 1983. “Newton’s Demonstration of Universal Gravitation and Philosophical Theories of Confirmation.” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume X: Testing Scientific Theories, edited by John S. Earman, pp. 179–200. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Laymon, Ronald. 1984. “The Path from Data to Theory.” in Scientific Realism, edited by Jarrett Leplin, pp. 108–123. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, doi:10.2307/jj.2430495.
Laymon, Ronald. 1988. “The Michelson-Morley Experiment and the Appraisal of Theories.” in Scrutinizing Science. Empirical Studies of Scientific Change, edited by Arthur Donovan, Laurens [Larry] Laudan, and Rachel Laudan, pp. 245–266. Synthese Library n. 193. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Laymon, Ronald. 1991. “Computer Simulations, Idealizations and Approximations.” in PSA 1990: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Arthur I. Fine, Micky Forbes, and Linda Wessels, pp. 519–534. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.

Further References

Leplin, Jarrett, ed. 1984. Scientific Realism. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, doi:10.2307/jj.2430495.