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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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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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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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A Natureza da representação a partir do referencial de Bas van Fraassen e a atribuição de sentido ao conhecimento químico escolar [PDF]
Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências, 2023 RESUMO: Inicialmente apresentam-se aspectos da problemática da natureza da representação no ensino, evidenciando a desconexão entre os sentidos atribuídos pelos professores e pelos alunos aos modelos representativos de conhecimentos científicos escolares,
Marcelo Gonzaga Rodrigues +1 more
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Ciência & Educação, 2022 Resumo: Examinamos aspectos da falência do ideal positivista na Ciência e de sua associação com o empirismo, particularmente no contexto do ensino de ciências.
Juliana Machado +1 more
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Griot, 2016 A ênfase no papel da observação, uma das características salientes do empirismo, está reafirmada no empirismo construtivo de Bas van Fraassen através da primazia atribuída por esse à distinção entre observável e inobservável.
Alessio Gava
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Processos causals, realisme i mecànica quàntica
Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofia, 2005 La teoria de l'explicació causal de Wesley Salmon troba, segons el mateix Salmon, una important dificultat en les correlacions Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) de la mecànica quàntica.
Mauricio Suárez
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Science and Tradition: Towards a Pluralistic Scientific Society [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021 Having offered the “argument from bad lot”, Bas van Fraassen has raised an important criticism on the Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) and challenged scientific realism.
Amir Motesharei, Mostafa Taqavi
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Filosofia Unisinos, 2016 In order to defend his controversial claim that observation is unaided perception, Bas van Fraassen, the originator of constructive empiricism, suggested that, for all we know, the images produced by a microscope could be in a situation analogous to ...
Alessio Gava
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