Here’s something I’m going to try to do from now on. When I have a new paper coming out, I’ll write up a little comment on how the paper came about and what it says. Here’s the first such post.
Naftali Weinberger and I have a new paper coming out in Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science A. It’s called “Making Sense of Non-factual Disagreement in Science”. I thought I’d write something about how the paper came about.
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