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Somewhere over the... what? [PDF]
Filosofia Unisinos, 2016 In order to defend his controversial claim that observation is unaided perception, Bas van Fraassen, the originator of constructive empiricism, suggested that, for all we know, the images produced by a microscope could be in a situation analogous to ...
Alessio Gava
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Mobility and Intuition: What Does Pre-Qin Daoist Philosophy Reveal about Constructive Postmodernism?
Religions, 2023 Constructive postmodernism is based on the monism of mind and matter, and proposes an organic philosophy which highlights the process and pan-empiricism. Chinese pre-Qin Daoist philosophy on the materiality, dynamism, and information of the Way (Dao) and
Weixi Li
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How to save van Fraassen’s own antirealism: a modest proposal
Perspectiva Filosófica, 2020 Bas van Fraassen’s antirealist view of science and its aim, constructive empiricism, notoriously rests upon a distinction between observable and unobservable entities.
Alessio Gava
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The Relationship between Scientific Realism and Scientific Progress Accounts [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2023 One of the most significant topics in the philosophy of science literature is the debate between scientific realism and anti-realism. In recent years, a considerable amount of literature has emerged on scientific progress accounts.
Siavash Mazdapour, Mostafa Taqavi
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Intentionality versus Constructive Empiricism [PDF]
, 2011 By focussing on the intentional character of observation in science, we argue that Constructive Empiricism – B.C. van Fraassen’s much debated and explored view of science – is inconsistent.
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Scientific representation and nominalism: an empiricist view
Principia: 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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Observation in Constructive Empiricism: Arbitrary or Incoherent?
Crítica, 2018 EI empirismo constructivo se halla inapropiadamente motivado por la doctrina empirista general. Sin embargo, sostenemos que es posible encontrar una motivacion para dicho empirismo en la peculiar mezcla entre la teoría de la decisión y algunos hechos ...
Alberto Cordero
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Constructive Empiricism and the Closure Problem [PDF]
, 2011 In this paper I articulate a fictionalist solution to the closure problem that affects constructive empiricism. Relying on Stephen Yablo’s recent study of closure puzzles, I show how we can partition the content of a theory in terms of its truthmakers ...
Rochefort-Maranda, Guillaume
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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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The Disastrous Implications of the 'English' View of Rationality in a Social World [PDF]
, 2018 Van Fraassen (2007, 2017) consistently uses the English view of rationality to parry criticisms from scientific realists. I assume for the sake of argument that the English view of rationality is tenable, and then argue that it has disastrous ...
Park, Seungbae
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