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Progress and Its Problems is a book on the philosophy of science. Written by Larry Laudan, the book was originally published in the US in 1977. Foreign (non-English) editions have also been published in several languages. The book has been reviewed by many professional journals,     and cited frequently in books and other scholarly publications.

Topics covered
Progress and Its Problems contains 7 chapters divided into two parts, as well as a substantive prologue and epilogue:
 * Prologue
 * Part One: A Model of Scientific Progress
 * 1. The Role of Empirical Problems
 * 2. Conceptual Problems
 * 3. From Theories to Research Traditions
 * 4. Progress and Revolution
 * Part Two: Applications
 * 5. History and Philosophy of Science
 * 6. The History of Ideas
 * 7. Rationality and the Sociology of Knowledge
 * Epilogue: Beyond Veritas and Praxis

The book also contains a preface with acknowledgements, notes, bibliography, and an index of names.

Reviews and influence
Progress and Its Problems was the focus of a 4-article symposium in Philosophy of the Social Sciences, and reviews have appeared in the The American Biology Teacher,  The American Journal of Sociology, ''Isis, The American Historical Review, Science, Technology and Culture, The Philosophical Review, Social Studies of Science, Philosophy of Science, Synthese, and elsewhere.

In the symposium in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Hull wrote that Anyone teaching a course in the philosophy of science is presented with the problem of finding a text which carries recent disputes beyond the received doctrines... and criticisms... What has been needed for some time is a book which presents a fully developed, self-contained alternative... which is nevertheless easy to follow. Larry Laudan’s Progress and Its Problems at long last does just that [and] for pedagogic purposes, his book could not be better. The exposition is clear, the historical examples which he presents both to illustrate and to test his views are historically accurate, and Laudan’s combination of the traditional epistemological elements is sufficiently novel to force both students and teachers out of their familiar mental ruts. (p. 457 )

In the same symposium, Lugg wrote that Although many philosophers of science have recognized that conceptual considerations play a role in scientific theorizing.... it is not implausible to claim, as Laudan does [on page 66], that no major contemporary philosophy of science allows for the weighty role which conceptual problems have played in the history of science' (p. 467 )

Regarding Laudan's interepretations of other views of the history of science, Hull wrote In general, Laudan tends to present extremely rigid interpretations of competing models of science, showing that much of what we take to be actual scientific practice conflicts or is irrelevant to these models. He treats his own model somewhat more flexibly and charitably, but that is only to be expected. Others will be happy to present rigid interpretations of his model, and show how presumed scientific practice actually conflicts or is irrelevant to it. (p. 464-5 )

In 2009 in Psychological Review, Griffiths and Tenenbaum described Progress and Its Problems as "a philosophical work that has inspired much of the treatment of theories in cognitive development" (p. 670 ).

Editions
Progress and Its Problems was first published in hardcover in 1977 in both the US and the UK. The next year, it was first published in paperback in the US. Other editions have been published in Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Serbian, and Spanish. The English-language editions are:
 * (hardcover, 257 pages)
 * (hardcover, 257 pages)
 * (paperback, 257 pages)