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Constructive Empiricism and Anti-Realism

PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1988
Van Fraassen stresses two distinct but interrelated themes in The Scientific Image: the semantic view of theories and the epistemic status of unobservables. The first of these could easily be accepted by a scientific realist, and indeed realists like Giere have already adapted it to their purposes.
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Constructive Empiricism: a Reconstruction of Economic Methodology

Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 1992
The principal aim of this paper is to explore the possibility of applying van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism to the contemporary debate on the methodology of economics. The authors argue that constructive empiricism supplies a novel and challenging framework which takes this debate beyond relativism and rhetoric on the one hand and beyond ...
Thomas A. Boylan, Pascal F. O’Gorman
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Expanding the Empirical Realm: No Threat to Constructive Empiricism

Universitas Philosophica
In his recent “Expanding the Empirical Realm: Constructive Empiricism and Augmented Observation” (2024), Finnur Dellsén recalls a quite fa-mous case that Gideon Rosen put forward against manifestationalism thirty years ago, and maintains that an ...
Alessio Gava
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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.
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Constructive Empiricism and the Problem of Aboutness

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1985
AbstractVan Fraassen's (1980) constructive empiricism asserts that it is not for science to reach a verdict on whether a theory is true or false, if the theory is about unobservable entities; scien...
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Constructive Empiricism and the Metaphysics of Modality

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2007
James Ladyman ([2000]) argues that constructive empiricism is untenable because it cannot adequately account for modal statements about observability. In this paper, I attempt to resist Ladyman's conclusion, arguing that the constructive empiricist can grant his modal discourse objective, theory-independent truth-conditions, yet without compromising ...
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Constructivism and the Construction of Mind in Empiricism

2023
The mind is the foundation of human existence. Content acquisition and development of the mind is possible with education. Education as a social fact has been explained by various theories. The theory of constructivism and especially the theory of cognitive constructivism is important in terms of interpreting mind and education together.
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Arguments Concerning Constructive Empiricism

2010
Should scientists believe everything they say? Ought they to believe the claims of their mature scientific theories, and in the existence of the various microscopic exotica that are now said to populate the unobservable reaches of reality? Or would a more modest attitude towards scientific inquiry be preferable?
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Constructive empiricism revisited

Metascience, 2011
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Constructive Empiricism and Logical Positivism: The Return of the Prodigal Son

Filozofia Nauki, 2023
Ragnar van der Merwe
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