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I recently had occasion to re-read the old debate between JS Mill and 
William Whewell over the true path towards the confirmation of theories, 
and it struck me as an episode that has lots of unexplored historical and 
philosophical potential. I'm curious to know whether anyone is currently 
working on this. It seems that there was considerable interest in the 
debate in the late 80s and the first couple years of the 90s, 
culminating in Fisch and Schaffer's 1991 collection on Whewell. If anyone 
is currently doing anything related to Mill's and/or Whewell's views on 
method, I'd be interested to hear about it. 
 
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Kent W. Staley 
Department of Philosophy 
Johns Hopkins University 
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