The Convergence and Content of Scientific Opinion

PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1984:211 - 223 (1984)
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Abstract

Examples, mainly from research in current physics, are used to examine and illustrate the network of factors which produce in scientific debate a convergence of opinion to a generally accepted set of laws and theories. Also addressed is the question of the reliability of these general theories as a faithful representation of the complexity of physical reality.

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