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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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Bayesian Agnosticism and Constructive Empiricism

Analysis, 1998
1. How should the traditional doxastic attitude of agnosticism be represented in a Bayesian framework? In Laws and Symmetry, Bas van Fraassen proposes that agnosticism be represented as having a certain type of vague opinion. A Bayesian with no vague opinions assigns sharp subjective probabilities to all propositions in a domain of discourse.
Bradley Monton
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van Fraassen’s Constructive Empiricism

Cogito, 1997
An introductory discussion of constructive ...
Sankey, Howard
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Defending constructive empiricism [PDF]

HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science
Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism has significantly shaped the debate on scientific realism. However, many commentators have been puzzled by the precise nature of the argument for this position. This paper reconstructs that argument.
Van Dyck, Maarten
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Constructive empiricism

SynthÈse, 1994
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Constructive Empiricism and Modal Nominalism

The 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 ...
Monton, Bradley, van Fraassen, Bas C.
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Mathematical Fictionalism and Constructive Empiricism

2010
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Empiricism, Theoretical Constructs and God

The Journal of Religion, 1974
Empiricism in religion has not had its final hearing. There is a ‘Quinean move’, and ‘interpretative move’ and what I shall label a kind of ‘naive empiricism’ that still needs to be heard. I shall start with ‘naive empiricism’ first and then proceed to the other two moves.
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On an Inconsistency in Constructive Empiricism

Philosophy of Science, 1997
I show that van Fraassen's empiricism leads to mutually incompatible claims with regard to empirical theories. He is committed to the claim that reasons for accepting a theory and believing it are always identical, insofar as the theory in question is an empirical theory.
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Radical empiricism is not constructive

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1997
The radical empiricist theory of the Quartz & Sejnowski target article would result in a brain that could not act. The attempt to bolster this position with computational arguments is misleading and often just wrong. Fortunately, other efforts are making progress in linking neural and cognitive development.
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