Theo Kuipers, born in Horst, the Netherlands, in 1947. Ph.D. from the University of Groningen. Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Groningen.

Fellow (1 September 1982 – 31 August 1983)

I worked on the following projects:

The Van der Waals law as a paradigm of concretisation;

The logic of intentional explanation;

Utilistic reduction in sociology;

Approaching the truth with methodological rules;

Inductive analogy by similarity;

Truth-likeness and the correspondence theory of truth; and

Evaluation of interval-estimation.