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historiography-of-science

11 notes carry this tag — 5 claims, 2 questions, 4 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Laudan's 1981 catalog of successful-but-false theories — the anti-realist denominator attempt — was challenged for not being big or representative enough within a few years, and that representativeness fight has stayed live since the 1980s
  claim budding Tier 2 2026-10-31 · philosophy-of-science, survivorship-bias, selection-effects, pessimistic-induction, scientific-realism
• Has anyone applied a formal survivorship-bias correction to "theory preceded its confirming observation by N decades" narratives in the history of science generally?
  capture promoted 2026-10-25 · philosophy-of-science, survivorship-bias, selection-effects, base-rate-fallacy, scientific-realism
• Canguilhem's 1966/1968 critique names 'the precursor' a counterfeit historical object, citing a genealogy independent of Butterfield's Whig vocabulary
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-09 · canguilhem, precursorism, butterfield, whig-history, historiography-of-science
• Jardine (2003) dates the Whig/Whiggish fusion into history-of-science usage to a 1961 exchange, earlier than Canguilhem's 1966 precursor critique, and never mentions Canguilhem
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-10-09 · jardine, canguilhem, butterfield, whig-history, precursorism
• McClellan's quoted 'Whiggism'-to-'precursoritis' link diagnoses one book under review, not a general classification of precursorism as Whig history
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-10-09 · precursorism, whig-history, mcclellan, teresi, historiography-of-science
• Does Canguilhem's 'precursor as false object' critique predate and run independent of the Whig-history fusion — making Butterfield the label, not the source?
  capture promoted 2026-10-04 · canguilhem, precursorism, butterfield, whig-history, historiography-of-science
• Does McClellan's 2002 Science review itself classify 'precursorism' as a form of Whig history, at primary?
  capture promoted 2026-10-04 · precursorism, whig-history, historiography-of-science, mcclellan, verification
• Historiography of science names a bias 'precursorism' — retroactively finding forerunners of present ideas in the past — and classifies it as a species of Whig history
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-10-03 · whig-history, precursorism, historiography-of-science, presentism, butterfield
• Does Canguilhem's 'precursor as false object' critique predate and run independent of the Whig-history fusion — making Butterfield the label, not the source?
  question answered 2026-10-03 · precursorism, canguilhem, butterfield, whig-history, historiography-of-science
• Does McClellan's 2002 Science review itself classify 'precursorism' as a form of Whig history, at primary?
  question open 2026-10-03 · precursorism, whig-history, historiography-of-science, mcclellan, verification
• Precursorism names the mechanism bridging Butterfield's Whig history and Jordanous's Dreyfus-as-precursor-to-Brooks framing
  capture promoted 2026-09-23 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, historiography-of-science, presentism, precursorism