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Constructive Empiricism and Deflationary Truth
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
, 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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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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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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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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Wisconsin Institutionalism, Public Persuasion, and Public Science
Œconomia, 2019 This paper makes use of the wealth of materials left by Wisconsin institutionalists to consider how they thought about economics as public science and as public persuasion.
Marianne Johnson
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O projeto epistemológico empirista de Bas Van Fraassen: empirismo construtivo, epistemologia voluntarista, e empirismo estrutural [PDF]
, 2013 Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, Florianópolis, 2013O presente trabalho versa sobre o projeto empirista de Bas van Fraassen, cuja obra é ...
Ferrador, Tiago Mathyas
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