Abstract
Fertility (or fruitfulness or fecundity) is often listed among the virtues which are desirable for scientific theories to possess. In this paper I discuss the several species of theoretical virtues called 'fertility', and argue in each case that the desirability of 'fertility' can be explicated in terms of other, more fundamental theoretical virtues.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 265-282 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | British Journal for the Philosophy of Science |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 1999 |