id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_2rs3tphqtfegddeulwle7cf5ki Matthew S. Sample Stanford's Unconceived Alternatives from the Perspective of Epistemic Obligations 2015 12 .pdf application/pdf 5167 277 45 relevance of the "new induction." The possibility of unconceived alternatives pushes us to epistemic limitations of historical reasoners, Stanford sets the stage for a re-evaluation of our with Stanford's historical case studies, with the limitations of past scientists, reveals our the "new induction" and answers Stanford's critics along the way. best scientific theories turns contrastive underdetermination into a puzzle for the armchair. Stanford proposes a "new induction" across the history of science. Stanford explains that Darwin and the larger scientific community were so perplexed This fact suggests a new way to understand epistemic obligations. here I suggest at least one obligation that seems implicit in the "new induction": scientists gives us a new way to understand contrastive underdetermination and its basis in Stanford's While Stanford uses his induction to worry scientific realists, its core impulse is an "Underdetermination of Scientific Theory" Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ./cache/work_2rs3tphqtfegddeulwle7cf5ki.pdf ./txt/work_2rs3tphqtfegddeulwle7cf5ki.txt