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BOOK REVIEW: Vickers, Peter (2022) Identifying future-proof science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 288 pp., ISBN: 9780192862730

B.V.E. HydePatric HartingJeff Hawley

Year: 2025 Journal:   Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum Vol: 13 (2)Pages: 156-164   Publisher: Estonian Association of the History and Philosophy of Science

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In Identifying future-proof science, Peter Vickers sets himself an ambitious goal. He wants to give us criteria, and parts of a method, for “identifying [scientific] claims we can be confident will last forever.”

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