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Truth in constructive empiricism [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Constructive Empiricism and the Argument from Underdetermination [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
AbstractThis chapter examines the arguments van Fraassen gives for constructive empiricism. Van Fraassen is often presented as giving some version of the argument from underdetermination: the argument which holds that since theories always have empirically equivalent rivals, empirical evidence can never adjudicate between a theory and its rivals, and ...
Van Dyck, Maarten, Maarten Van Dyck
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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 Model Nominalism.

open access: yesSophia: 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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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 ...
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