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UNWARRANTED CONFIDENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POVERTY OF ANTI‐REALISM
History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 271-297, June 2026.ABSTRACT The Poverty of Anti‐Realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History, edited by Tor Egil Førland and Branko Mitrović, celebrates the new dawn of historical realism, which it claims supersedes the erroneous and harmful anti‐realism.
Jouni‐Matti Kuukkanen
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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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The bayesian and the abductivist
Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 921-937, December 2025.Abstract A major open question in the borderlands between epistemology and philosophy of science concerns whether Bayesian updating and abductive inference are compatible. Some philosophers—most influentially Bas van Fraassen—have argued that they are not.
Mattias Skipper, Olav Benjamin Vassend
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O empirismo construtivo e o argumento de Musgrave: um problema ou um pseudoproblema?
Trans/Form/AçãoResumo 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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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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Epistemic injustice and the “Nature of Science”
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 901-941, April 2025.Abstract Scientists and science educators have argued that learners (students, preservice teachers, and inservice teachers) should understand knowledge construction in science, in addition to figuring out disciplinary core ideas. Given this goal, some science education scholars created a construct called the “Nature of Science” (NOS), which aims to ...
David Stroupe +2 more
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Metaphilosophy, Volume 56, Issue 1, Page 35-51, January 2025.Abstract Some philosophical pluralists argue that a top‐down and a bottom‐up approach serve as equally justified methods for engaging in ontological inquiry. In the top‐down approach, we start with an analysis of theory and extrapolate from there to the world.
Ragnar van der Merwe
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Milking a spherical cow: Toy models in neuroscience
European Journal of Neuroscience, Volume 60, Issue 10, Page 6359-6374, November 2024.Highly idealised models have long played a role in physics, valued not for their empirical accuracy but for their ability to clarify conceptual puzzles, foster tool development, and suggest new directions. We argue that the theoretical development of neuroscience could likewise benefit from such a strategy. After briefly reviewing the use of toy models
Randall D. Beer +2 more
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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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Indifference, Indeterminacy, and the Uncertainty Argument for Saving Identified Lives
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 480-497, July 2024.ABSTRACT In some cases where we are faced with a decision of whether to prioritize identified lives over statistical lives, we have no basis for assigning specific probabilities to possible outcomes. Is there any reason to prioritize either statistical or identified lives in such cases?
Eric Gilbertson
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