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Epistemic communities and their situated practices: Perspectival realism—a primer

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1523, Issue 1, Page 5-10, May 2023., 2023
The epistemic feat that we call science is not an aseptic outcome of reasoning from an eternal viewpoint but the product of myriad epistemic communities with intersecting and interlacing scientific perspectives. Abstract The epistemic feat that we call science is not an aseptic outcome of reasoning from an eternal viewpoint but the product of myriad ...
Michela Massimi
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The Icarus flight of speculation: Philosophers' vices as perceived by nineteenth‐century historians and physicists

Metaphilosophy, Volume 54, Issue 2-3, Page 280-294, April 2023., 2023
Abstract Why did nineteenth‐century German historians and physicists habitually warn against vices that they believed philosophers in particular embodied: speculation, absence of common sense, and excessive systematizing? Drawing on a rich array of sources, this article interprets this vice‐charging as a rhetorical practice aimed at delineating ...
Sjang ten Hagen, Herman Paul
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A structuralist interpretation of the relational interpretation

Theoria, Volume 88, Issue 4, Page 733-742, August 2022., 2022
Abstract The present paper aims to provide an insight into the epistemological and metaphysical implications of a structuralist interpretation of Relational Quantum Mechanics (RQM). I will suggest that the ‘entity‐relation identity’ at the core of a particular formulation of Ontic Structural Realism represents the best framework against which to ...
Giovanni Buonocore
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No fact of the matter

Metaphilosophy, Volume 52, Issue 3-4, Page 466-478, July 2021., 2021
Abstract Theodore Sider has argued that while there are some philosophical debates about which there is no fact of the matter, debates in normative ethics are likely not among them. This essay investigates a possible counterexample: the debate about so‐called dirty hands.
Marius Baumann
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Bas van Fraassen on Scientific Representation [PDF]

Analysis, 2010
Participation in a Symposium in Analysis on van Fraassen's book Scientific Representation. Paradoxes of Perspective, together with Gabriele Contessa, Steven French and RIG Hughes, wih a summary and a reply by Bas van Fraassen.
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The Relationship between Scientific Realism and Scientific Progress Accounts [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2023
One of the most significant topics in the philosophy of science literature is the debate between scientific realism and anti-realism. In recent years, a considerable amount of literature has emerged on scientific progress accounts.
Siavash Mazdapour, Mostafa Taqavi
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É possível ver imagens? (ou do porquê van Fraassen deveria rever a sua abordagem em relação a elas)

Griot, 2018
Em seu último livro (2008), Bas van Fraassen, o fundador do empirismo construtivo, propôs uma categorização das imagens em forma de tabela. O intuito dele, todavia, era discutir da realidade daquilo que essas representam e não enfrentar a questão das ...
Alessio Gava
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Modelos de explicação científica, inferência da melhor explicação e a história da dupla-hélice do DNA

Filosofia e História da Biologia, 2023
O presente artigo objetiva realizar um estudo de caso que aplica o modelo de inferência da melhor explicação (inference to the best explanation, IBE) de Peter Lipton ao episódio histórico da construção do modelo de dupla-hélice do DNA, no século XX ...
Gabriel Chiarotti Sardi
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On the Question of Identification of a Scientific Theory (A Reply to "Van Fraassen's Concept of Empirical Theory" by Pérez Ransanz)

Crítica, 2018
En este texto, van Fraassen responde a varias preguntas que se le han planteado sobre sus concepciones acerca de la ciencia. Intenta mostrar que se puede dar una explicación que implique que una teoría científica, aunque no se puede identificar con una ...
Bas C. van Fraassen
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Temporal dimension of new-Zeno paradoxes [PDF]

Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"
The paper investigates some properties of new-Zeno paradoxes. New-Zeno paradoxes are thought experiments whose conditions are set up in terms of Zeno sequences of numbers, i.e.
E. V. Borisov
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