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Constructive Empiricism Now

Philosophical Studies, 2001
Van Fraassen Bas C, Bas C van Fraassen
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Whither Constructive Empiricism?

Philosophical Studies, 2001
Paul Teller
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Constructive Empiricism

SynthÈse, 1994
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The “Positive Argument” for Constructive Empiricism and Inference to the Best Explanation [PDF]

Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 2018
In this paper, I argue that the “positive argument” for Constructive Empiricism (CE), according to which CE “makes better sense of science, and of scientific activity, than realism does” (van Fraassen 1980, 73), is an Inference to the Best Explanation ...
Moti Mizrahi
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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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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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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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The Epistemology of Constructive Empiricism

2007
Abstract This chapter questions what epistemic reason van Fraassen has for focusing on empirical adequacy. It contrasts van Fraassen's constructive empiricism with a pragmatic empiricism, where one gives pragmatic, not epistemic, reasons for believing in the claims of a theory.
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A Biological Objection to Constructive Empiricism

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1993
Dans « The Scientific Image » (1980), Van Fraassen developpe ce que les AA. denomment la doctrine du rejet de la these non observable.
CHARLES CHIHARA, CAROL CHIHARA
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