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What is constructive empiricism?

Philosophical Studies, 1994
L'A. tente de definir l'empirisme constructif de B. van Fraassen a partir d'un travail hermeneutique sur ses ecrits, ce qui l'amene a depasser l'opposition realisme/antirealisme, et a deceler la raison de son rejet metaphysique pre-kantien de l ...
Gideon Rosen
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Constructive Empiricism and Modal Nominalism

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2003
James Ladyman has argued that constructive empiricism entails modal realism, and that this renders constructive empiricism untenable. We maintain that constructive empiricism is compatible with modal nominalism. Although the central term ‘observable’ has been analyzed in terms of counterfactuals, and in general counterfactuals do not have objective ...
Bradley Monton, Bas C Van Fraassen
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Truth in constructive empiricism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Constructive empiricism, the scientific anti-realism championed by Bas van Fraassen, claims to offer an adequate reconstruction of the aim and practice of scientific inquiry without adopting the inflationary metaphysical excesses of scientific realism. In articulating the positions of the realist and the empiricist, van Fraassen freely makes use of the
Asay, Jamin
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Constructive Empiricism and Model Nominalism.

open access: yesSophia: An African Journal of Philosophy, 2007
James Ladyman has argued that constructive empiricism entails modal realism, and that this renders constructive empiricism untenable. We maintain that constructive empiricism is compatible with modal nominalism. Although the central term “observable” has been analyzed in terms of counterfactuals, and in general counterfactuals do not have objective ...
E J Udokang, Udokang, E J
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Gideon Rosen on constructive empiricism

Philosophical Studies, 1994
L'A. approuve l'article «What is Constructive Empiricism?» que G. Rosen lui a consacre, mais distingue sa propre these concernant l'empirisme constructif des premices hermeneutiques du travail de G.
Bas C Van Fraassen, Van Fraassen Bas C
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