Toward Truthlikeness in Historiography

Truthlikeness, Rationality And Scientific Method

I. A. Kieseppä’s criticism of the methodological use of the theory of verisimilitude, and D. B. Resnik’s arguments against the explanation of scientific method by appeal to scientific aims are critically considered. Since the notion of verisimilitude was introduced as an attempt to show that science can be seen as a rational enterprise in the pursuit of truth, defenders of the verisimilitude pr...

Pharmaceutical Historiography

Pharmaceutical Historiography, ed. by A. BERMAN (Proceedings of a Colloquium sponsored by the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy on the occasion of the Institute's 25th Anniversary, Madison, Wisconsin, 22-23 January, 1966), Madison, Wisconsin, American Institute for the History of Pharmacy, 1967, pp. 145, $2.00. This volume deals with (a) George Urdang's concepts on the framework of ...

Historiography; a bibiography

Diagnostic criteria ofsyphilis, yaws and treponarid (treponematoses) and of some other diseases in dry bones (for use in osteo-archaeology), Berlin, Methods of diagnosing or denying syphilis in ancient bones is of vital significance for the interpretation of the early history of syphilis. Dr. Hackett has taken the first essential step, which is the establishment of diagnostic criteria of syphil...

A Note on Truthlikeness and Irrelevance

Parameterized verisimilar or truthlike orders are concerned with ordering theories relative to a third theory. We argue that not only should irrelevant consequences of the theories to be ordered be disallowed, but so should irrelevant consequences of the theory relative to which the order is defined.

Irish medical historiography.