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The epistemological foundations of organicism: a reconstruction of Steiner's Grundlinien einer Erkenntnistheorie der Goetheschen Weltanschauung (1886). [PDF]

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Hueck CJ.
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Limitations of Laboratory‑Exclusive Empiricism and the Construction of Natural Absolute Empiricism

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Truth in constructive empiricism [PDF]

, 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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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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Constructive Empiricism and Model Nominalism.

Sophia: 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.
Van Fraassen Bas C, Bas C van Fraassen
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Constructive Empiricism and the Vices of Voluntarism

International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2009
Abstract Constructive empiricism – as formulated by Bas van Fraassen – makes no epistemological claims about the nature of science. Rather, it is a view about the aim of science, to be situated within van Fraassen’s broader voluntarist epistemology. Yet while this epistemically minimalist framework may have various advantages in defending the epistemic
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van Fraassen’s Constructive Empiricism

Cogito, 1997
An introductory discussion of constructive ...
Sankey, Howard
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