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Constructive Empiricism and Deflationary Truth [PDF]
Philosophy of Science, 2009 Constructive empiricists claim to offer a reconstruction of the aim and practice of science without adopting all the metaphysical commitments of scientific realism. Deflationists about truth boast of the ability to offer a full account of the nature of truth without adopting the metaphysical commitments accompanying substantive accounts. Though the two
Jamin Asay, Asay, Jamin
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Constructive Empiricism and the Closure Problem [PDF]
Erkenntnis, 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 and claim that a constructive empiricist can believe that all the observable conditions that are ...
Rochefort-Maranda, Guillaume +1 more
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Friedman's ?instrumentalism? and constructive empiricism in economics
Theory and Decision, 1994 This reassessment of the long debate about Friedman's thesis on the pointlessness of testing assumptions in economics shows that Friedman's three famous examples, on which a large part of the credit given to this thesis is based, far from substantiating it, can be used to establish radically opposite conclusions.
Lagueux, Maurice
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The epistemological skepticism of constructive empiricism [PDF]
, 2018 Dissertation contributes to the solution of the problem of the epistemic status of natural science. The questions of ontology and epistemology of science, questions about the semantics of scientific language and the methodology of science have been prominent in scientific realism-antirealism debate.
Bujokas, Justas,
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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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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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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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New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Advancing artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed learning and work, yet higher education and professional development programs have not systematically equipped learners for AI‐prevalent environments. This lack of preparation creates uncertainty regarding control, responsibility, trust, and accountability.
Moon‐Heum Cho, Jerusalem Merkebu
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Film and cinema as a subject of sociological study. Between tradition and the present
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Sociologica, 2020 Relations between sociology and cinema span over a hundred years. The author’s task is to reflect on this fact and, as a result, to present her own theoretical and methodological concept.
Ewelina Wejbert-Wąsiewicz
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A case for old-fashioned observability, and a reconstructed constructive empiricism [PDF]
, 2004 I develop a concept of observability that pertains to qualities rather than objects: a quality is observable if it can be registered by human sensation (possibly with the aid of instruments) without involving optional interpretations.
Chang, Hasok, Chang, H
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