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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Should Scientific Realists Embrace Theoretical Conservatism? [PDF]
, 2018 A prominent type of scientific realism holds that some important parts of our best current scientific theories are at least approximately true. According to such realists, radically distinct alternatives to these theories or theory-parts are unlikely to ...
Dellsén, Finnur
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Empirical Adequacy and Scientific Discovery
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2008 This paper aims to show that Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism, such as it is expounded in The Scientific Image, ends up in considerable difficulties in the philosophy of science.
Samuel Simon
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Professor Scheppele’s Middle Way: On Minimizing Normativity and Economics in Securities Law [PDF]
, 1993 Direct prediction error identification of systems operating in closed loop may lead to biased results due to the correlation between the input and the output noise. The authors study this error, what factors affect it, and how it may be avoided.
Allen, William T.
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Pseudo-Marxism and Proto-Functionalism in Serbian Ethnology: Kulišić versus Filipović
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2022 This paper discusses an episode in the history of Serbian ethnology, which I take to be indicative of the conditions in domestic disciplinary production in the first decade following WWII.
Gordana Gorunović
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How to Overcome Antirealists’ Objections to Scientific Realism [PDF]
, 2019 Van Fraassen contends that there is no argument that rationally compels us to disbelieve a successful theory, T. I object that this contention places upon him the burden of showing that scientific antirealists’ favorite arguments, such as the pessimistic
Park, Seungbae
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The Field of Relational Sociology
Digithum, 2020 I offer a qualitative sketch and a brief empirical analysis of relational sociology as a scientific field. The field consists of scholarly communication that adheres to the label “relational sociology”, articulating and elaborating the idea that the ...
Jan A. Fuhse
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Neither Logical Empiricism nor Vitalism, but Organicism: What the Philosophy of Biology Was [PDF]
, 2015 Philosophy of biology is often said to have emerged in the last third of the twentieth century. Prior to this time, it has been alleged that the only authors who engaged philosophically with the life sciences were either logical empiricists who sought to
Gawne, Richard, Nicholson, Daniel J.
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Sofia A. Yanovskaya: The Marxist Pioneer of Mathematical Logic in the Soviet Union [PDF]
, 2019 K. Marx’s 200th jubilee coincides with the celebration of the 85 years from the first publication of his “Mathematical Manuscripts” in 1933. Its editor, Sofia Alexandrovna Yanovskaya (1896–1966), was a renowned Soviet mathematician ...
Kilakos, Dimitris
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Replies to Healey’s Comments Regarding van Fraassen’s Positions [PDF]
, 2020 Healey (2019a) makes four comments on my (Park, 2019a) objections to van Fraassen’s positions. The four comments concern the issues of whether ‘disbelief’ is appropriate or inappropriate to characterize van Fraassen’s position, what the relationship ...
Park, Seungbae
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