This study guide is intended to help you work through the course literature. The Underdetermination Thesis A. Hume 1. Hume concludes that we cannot reason a priori about matters of fact.
Quine tries to explicate the concept of interchangeability salva veritiate .
Laudan objects to the claim that Underdetermination leads to relativism 1. The Emergence of Relativism Thomas Kuhn's arguments for Relativism 1. Kuhn rejects the claim that science progresses towards the truth. His central arguments come from the problem of incommensurability and the failure of derivability, and the argument from the theory-ladenness of observation in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.