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Bas van Fraassen's Philosophy of Science and His Epistemic Voluntarism

Philosophy Compass, 2014
Abstract Bas van Fraassen's anti‐realist account of science has played a major role in shaping recent philosophy of science. His constructive empiricism, in particular, has been widely discussed and criticized in the journal literature and is a standard topic in philosophy of science course curricula.
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Bas van Fraassen’s Approach to Representation and Models in Science

Synthese Library, 2014
Prologue Wenceslao J. Gonzalez.- Part 1. Philosophical Coordinates.- Chapter 1. "On Representation and Models in Bas van Fraassen's Approach" Wenceslao J. Gonzalez.- Chapter 2. "Scientific Activity as an Interpretative Practice. Empiricism, Constructivism and Pragmatism" Inmaculada Perdomo.- Chapter 3.
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Laudatio: Professor Bas van Fraassen

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS OF BAS C. VAN FRAASSEN’S PUBLICATIONS

2006
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Présentation du professeur Bas van Fraassen

Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 2000
Ghins MichelGhins Michel. Présentation du professeur Bas van Fraassen. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 98, n°3, 2000. pp. 445-448.
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Bas van Fraassen on Religion and Knowledge

American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 2006
In his recent book, The Empirical Stance (2002), Bas van Fraassen elaborates on earlier suggestions of a religious view that has striking parallels with his constructive empiricism. A particularly salient feature consists in the way in which he keeps a critical distance from theoretical formulations both in science and religion, thus preferring a ...
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Meriti e demeriti dell'empirismo costruttivo di Bas van Fraassen

2020
Constructive empiricism affirms that science aims to give us theories that are empirically adequate, that is, coherent with the observable phenomena. Unlike sci entific realism, according to which we should believe scientific theories when they give us good reason to think that they are true, constructive empiricism, as articu lated and defended by Bas
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Models and Phenomena: Bas van Fraassen’s Empiricist Structuralism

2013
Bas van Fraassen’s recent endorsement of empiricist structuralism is based on a particular approach to representation. He sharply distinguishes between what makes a scientific model M a successful representation of its target T from what makes M a representation of T and not of some other different target T’. van Fraassen maintains that embedment (i.e.:
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On Representation and Models in Bas van Fraassen’s Approach

2013
Professor van Fraassen’s characterization of representation and models requires taking into account several aspects. (1) His intellectual trajectory gives us key elements of the philosophical framework of his approach. (2) The philosophical context of representation and models in science involves the consideration of realms of analysis of ...
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