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Radical empiricism is not constructive

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1997
The radical empiricist theory of the Quartz & Sejnowski target article would result in a brain that could not act. The attempt to bolster this position with computational arguments is misleading and often just wrong. Fortunately, other efforts are making progress in linking neural and cognitive development.
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On an Inconsistency in Constructive Empiricism

Philosophy of Science, 1997
I show that van Fraassen's empiricism leads to mutually incompatible claims with regard to empirical theories. He is committed to the claim that reasons for accepting a theory and believing it are always identical, insofar as the theory in question is an empirical theory.
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A Biological Objection to Constructive Empiricism

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1993
Dans « The Scientific Image » (1980), Van Fraassen developpe ce que les AA. denomment la doctrine du rejet de la these non observable.
CHARLES CHIHARA, CAROL CHIHARA
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Constructive Empiricism and Anti-Realism

PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1988
Van Fraassen stresses two distinct but interrelated themes in The Scientific Image: the semantic view of theories and the epistemic status of unobservables. The first of these could easily be accepted by a scientific realist, and indeed realists like Giere have already adapted it to their purposes.
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Constructive Empiricism: a Reconstruction of Economic Methodology

Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 1992
The principal aim of this paper is to explore the possibility of applying van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism to the contemporary debate on the methodology of economics. The authors argue that constructive empiricism supplies a novel and challenging framework which takes this debate beyond relativism and rhetoric on the one hand and beyond ...
Thomas A. Boylan, Pascal F. O’Gorman
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The Epistemology of Constructive Empiricism

2007
Abstract This chapter questions what epistemic reason van Fraassen has for focusing on empirical adequacy. It contrasts van Fraassen's constructive empiricism with a pragmatic empiricism, where one gives pragmatic, not epistemic, reasons for believing in the claims of a theory.
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Constructivism and the Construction of Mind in Empiricism

2023
The mind is the foundation of human existence. Content acquisition and development of the mind is possible with education. Education as a social fact has been explained by various theories. The theory of constructivism and especially the theory of cognitive constructivism is important in terms of interpreting mind and education together.
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Constructive Empiricism and the Problem of Aboutness

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1985
AbstractVan Fraassen's (1980) constructive empiricism asserts that it is not for science to reach a verdict on whether a theory is true or false, if the theory is about unobservable entities; scien...
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Constructive Empiricism and the Metaphysics of Modality

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2007
James Ladyman ([2000]) argues that constructive empiricism is untenable because it cannot adequately account for modal statements about observability. In this paper, I attempt to resist Ladyman's conclusion, arguing that the constructive empiricist can grant his modal discourse objective, theory-independent truth-conditions, yet without compromising ...
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Arguments Concerning Constructive Empiricism

2010
Should scientists believe everything they say? Ought they to believe the claims of their mature scientific theories, and in the existence of the various microscopic exotica that are now said to populate the unobservable reaches of reality? Or would a more modest attitude towards scientific inquiry be preferable?
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