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Representation and Perspective in Science

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2007
The world science describes tends to have a very strange look. We can’t see atoms or force fields, nor are they imaginable within visualizable categories, so neither can we even imagine what the world must be like according to recent physical theories ...
Bas C. van Fraassen
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Non-causal laws: an alternative hypothesis to Armstrong’s hypothesis

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
Non-causal laws have long been a thorn in David Armstrong’s side. This paper aims to provide a more accommodating framework for these laws within Armstrong’s metaphysics of laws of nature.
Eduardo Castro
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Jonh Locke e o realismo científico [PDF]

Princípios, 2007
This article has as its aim to discuss the insertion of John Lock in the philosophy of scientific realism in what concerns to the debate realism/empiricism.
Marcos Rodrigues da Silva
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El concepto de teoría empírica según van Fraassen

Crítica, 2018
En los años setenta cristaliza un nuevo enfoque en la filosofía de la ciencia, el cual venía gestándose desde diferentes direcciones. Se conforma una concepción de teoría empírica —tanto de su naturaleza como de su estructura y función esencialmente ...
Ana Rosa Pérez Ransanz
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In praise of Sorensen’s ‘blockage theory’ on shadows

Filosofia Unisinos, 2018
In his famous book Seeing Dark Things: The Philosophy of Shadows (2008), Roy Sorensen put forward a ‘blocking theory of shadows’, a causal view on these entities according to which a shadow is an absence of light caused by blockage. This approach allows
Alessio Gava
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What would it Mean to Directly Observe Electrons?

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2004
In this paper it is argued that a proper understanding of the justification of perceptual beliefs leaves open the possibility that normal humans, unaided by microscopes, could genuinely know, by direct observation, of the existence of a theoretical ...
David Mitsuo Nixon
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Why Quarks Are Unobservable

Philosophia Scientiæ, 2009
This essay deals with the question whether quarks—the basic components of matter and one of the youngest confirmed particles in high energy physics—can be observed directly or indirectly.
Tobias Fox
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Realismo Científico Empirista?

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 1997
In his influential criticism of scientific realism, Bas van Fraassen assumes that this doctrine is incompatible with empiricism, according to which the sole ultimate basis of knowledge is experience.
Sílvio Seno Chibeni
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Van Fraassen, Everett, and the Critique of the Copenhagen View of Measurement

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2008
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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Realismo y antirrealismo en la concepción semántica de las teorías científicas

Crítica, 2018
Bas van Fraassen, one of the most energetic defenders of the semantic conception of scientific theories, has recently held that while scientific theories can be identified through their models they cannot be identified with them (van Fraassen [1985], cf.
León Olivé
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