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Laudatio: Professor Bas van Fraassen

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Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective. By Bas C. van Fraassen

Metaphilosophy, 2010
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Bas van Fraassen on Religion and Knowledge

American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 2006
In his recent book, The Empirical Stance (2002), Bas van Fraassen elaborates on earlier suggestions of a religious view that has striking parallels with his constructive empiricism. A particularly salient feature consists in the way in which he keeps a critical distance from theoretical formulations both in science and religion, thus preferring a ...
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Présentation du professeur Bas van Fraassen

Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 2000
Ghins MichelGhins Michel. Présentation du professeur Bas van Fraassen. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 98, n°3, 2000. pp. 445-448.
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On Representation and Models in Bas van Fraassen’s Approach

2013
Professor van Fraassen’s characterization of representation and models requires taking into account several aspects. (1) His intellectual trajectory gives us key elements of the philosophical framework of his approach. (2) The philosophical context of representation and models in science involves the consideration of realms of analysis of ...
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Explanation as a Pragmatic Virtue: Bas van Fraassen’s Model

2013
This work provides an analysis of van Fraassen’s model of explanation in the theoretical framework of the scientific explanation models. The objective is, first, to see his contribution to this framework and, secondly, what objections or criticism he is capable of.
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Bas van Fraassen on Success and Adequacy in Representing and Modelling

2016
In his Scientific Representation. Paradoxes of Perspective (2008), Bas van Fraassen offers a pragmatic account of scientific representation and representation tout court. In this paper I examine the three conditions for a user to succeed in representing a target in some context: identification of the target of the representational action, representing ...
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In Defense of Laws: Reflections on Bas van Fraassen's Laws and Symmetry

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1993
The topic of laws of nature provides a kind of Rorschach test for philosophy. Some philosophers see in laws only Humean regularities; others see a kind of physical necessity; others see a necessity closer to logical necessity; others see expressions of causal powers; others see inference tickets; still others see relations between universals; ... ; and
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Models and Phenomena: Bas van Fraassen’s Empiricist Structuralism

2013
Bas van Fraassen’s recent endorsement of empiricist structuralism is based on a particular approach to representation. He sharply distinguishes between what makes a scientific model M a successful representation of its target T from what makes M a representation of T and not of some other different target T’. van Fraassen maintains that embedment (i.e.:
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Meriti e demeriti dell'empirismo costruttivo di Bas van Fraassen

2020
Constructive empiricism affirms that science aims to give us theories that are empirically adequate, that is, coherent with the observable phenomena. Unlike sci entific realism, according to which we should believe scientific theories when they give us good reason to think that they are true, constructive empiricism, as articu lated and defended by Bas
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