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Constructive Empiricism: Normative or Descriptive? [PDF]

International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2014
In this paper, I argue that Constructive Empiricism (CE) is ambiguous between two interpretations: CE as a normative epistemology of science and CE as a descriptive philosophy of science. When they present CE, constructive empiricists write as if CE is supposed to be more than a normative epistemology of science and that it is meant to be responsible ...
Moti Mizrahi
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Intentionality Versus Constructive Empiricism [PDF]

Erkenntnis, 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. We then argue there are at least two ways out of our Inconsistency Argument, one of which is more easily to square with Constructive Empiricism than the other.
Buekens, F.A.I., Muller, F.
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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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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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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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Somewhere over the... what?

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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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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Constructive Empiricism, Partial Structures and the Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

Quanta, 2014
Van Fraassen's modal interpretation of non-relativistic quantum mechanics is articulated to support an anti-realist account of quantum theory. However, given the particular form of van Fraassen's anti-realism (constructive empiricism), two problems ...
Otávio Bueno
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