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Scientific Representation and Nominalism: An Empiricist View

open access: yesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2008
Can a constructive empiricist make sense of scientific representation? Usually, a scientific model is an abstract entity (e.g., formulated in set theory), and scientific representation is conceptualized as an intentional relation between scientific ...
Otávio Bueno
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Fisicismo Não-Reducionista: Uma Atitude sem Conteúdo Cognitivo? Sobre o Desafio de Bas van Fraassen

open access: yesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2007
According to the dominant view on causation, particular, spatial-temporally locatable events, which can be designated by singular terms and definite descriptions, are the only genuine relata of the causal relation.
Wilson Mendonça
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Bas van Fraassen y la Ley de Hardy-Weinberg: Una Discussión y Desarrollo de su Diagnóstico

open access: yesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2008
The aim of this article is to discuss and develop the diagnose of the Hardy- Weinberg law made by van Fraassen (1987, p. 110), according to which: 1) that law cannot be considered a law used as an axiom for the classical population genetics as a whole ...
Pablo Lorenzano
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On the Aims and Responsibilities of Science

open access: yesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2007
I offer a view of the aims and responsibilities of science, and use it to analyze critically van Fraassen’s view that ‘objectifying inquiry’ is fundamental to the nature of science.
Hugh Lacey
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Some cracks on Bas van Fraassen’s Constructive Empiricism

open access: yes, 2015
El empirismo constructivo de Bas van Fraassen fue pensado como una posición antirrealista que elude todo compromiso ontológico con entidades metafísicas no deseables y que está profundamente distanciada tanto del realismo científico como del positivismo lógico.
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Explanation in mathematical conversations: an empirical investigation. [PDF]

open access: yesPhilos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci, 2019
Pease A, Aberdein A, Martin U.
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