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Van Frasssen, Everett, and the critique of the copenhagem view of measurement

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2010
Bas van Fraassen advocates a “Copenhagen variant” of the modal interpretation of quantum mechanics. However, he believes that the Copenhagen approach to measurement is not fully satisfactory, since it seems to rule out the possibility of providing a ...
Stefano Osnaghi
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["Critical evaluation of Bas van Fraassen's objections to the EMI", 'Evaluación crítica de las objeciones de Bas van Fraassen a la IME']

Lógoi, 2017
Roberto Miguel Azar
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O empirismo construtivo e o argumento de Musgrave: um problema ou um pseudoproblema?

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Resumo Em 1985, Alan Musgrave levantou uma séria objeção contra a possibilidade, por parte de um empirista construtivo, de traçar de maneira coerente a distinção - crucial para ele - entre observáveis e inobserváveis.
Alessio Gava
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Palavra do Editor

Trans/Form/Ação, 2023
Neste quarto fascículo regular de 2018 da revista Trans/Form/Ação, contamos com dez contribuições inéditas focadas nos pensamentos moderno e contemporâneo, na lógica e na filosofia da ciência.
Andrey Ivanov
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Science-based Metaphysics: On Some Recent Anti-metaphysical Claims

Philosophia Scientiæ, 2015
This paper focuses on the debate concerning whether and, if at all, in what way metaphysics should be accepted alongside science. It examines some recent objections levelled, among others, by Bas Van Fraassen against metaphysics as an intelligible and ...
Matteo Morganti
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REVIEW: Bas van Fraassen, Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective [PDF]

Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science, 2009
Readers of Bas van Fraassen’s previous work will find his newest book, Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective (2008), packed with many familiar theses, albeit defended in interesting new ways. Those interested in the debate between scientific realists and anti-realists, in particular, will find this a more satisfying sequel to his first ...
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Astroparticle physics, a constructive empiricist account

Science & Philosophy, 2019
Astroparticle physics is an interdisciplinary field embracing astronomy, astrophysics and particle physics. In a recent paper on this topic (2012), Brigitte Falkenburg defended that only scientific realism can make sense of it and that realist beliefs ...
Alessio Gava
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Bas Van Fraassen y la Ley de Hardy-Weinberg: una discusión y desarrolo de su diagnóstico

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2008
O objetivo deste trabalho é discutir e desenvolver o diagnóstico que efetua van Fraassen (1987, p. 110) da lei de Hardy-Weinberg, de acordo coo qual esta: 1) não pode ser considerada uma lei a ser utilizada como un axioma da teoria genética de ...
Pablo Lorenzano
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Common-Sense Realism and the Unimaginable Otherness of Science

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2007
Bas van Fraassen endorses both common-sense realism — the view, roughly, that the ordinary macroscopic objects that we take to exist actually do exist — and constructive empiricism — the view, roughly, that the aim of science is truth about the ...
Bradley Monton
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A Contextual Account of Explanation in Logic

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
Recent approaches to the epistemology of logic, under the title of “anti-exceptionalism about logic”, explicitly adopt what is asserted to be the method of theory choice and the correct account of explanation in the sciences.
Evelyn Erickson
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