‘Quine’s Meaning Nihilism: Revisiting Naturalism and Confirmation Method,’ [PDF]
, 2017 The paper concentrates on an appreciation of W.V. Quine’s thought on meaning and how it escalates beyond the meaning holism and confirmation holism, thereby paving the way for a ‘meaning nihilism’ and ‘confirmation rejectionism’.
Chakraborty, Dr Sanjit
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Hume, the Philosophy of Science and the Scientific Tradition [PDF]
, 2018 Although the main focus of Hume’s career was in the humanities, his work also has an observable role in the historical development of natural sciences after his time.
Slavov, Matias
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Film and cinema as a subject of sociological study. Between tradition and the present
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Sociologica, 2020 Relations between sociology and cinema span over a hundred years. The author’s task is to reflect on this fact and, as a result, to present her own theoretical and methodological concept.
Ewelina Wejbert-Wąsiewicz
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The “Positive Argument” for Constructive Empiricism and Inference to the Best Explanation [PDF]
, 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 ...
Mizrahi, Moti
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Wisconsin Institutionalism, Public Persuasion, and Public Science
Œconomia, 2019 This paper makes use of the wealth of materials left by Wisconsin institutionalists to consider how they thought about economics as public science and as public persuasion.
Marianne Johnson
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Constructive Verification, Empirical Induction, and Falibilist Deduction: A Threefold Contrast
Information, 2011 This article explores some open questions related to the problem of verification of theories in the context of empirical sciences by contrasting three epistemological frameworks.
Julio Michael Stern
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, 2014 State of the art paper on the topic realism/anti-realism. The first part of the paper elucidates the notions of existence and independence of the metaphysical characterization of the realism/anti-realism dispute.
Castro, Eduardo
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O Empirismo Construtivo, a Distinção entre Observar e Observar Que e a Intencionalidade
Trans/Form/AçãoRESUMO: No âmbito do empirismo construtivo, a célebre posição acerca dos objetivos da ciência de Bas van Fraassen, o ato de observar desempenha um papel crucial.
Alessio Gava
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The Problem of Unobservable A Defense of Van Fraassenâs Distinction between Observable and Unobservable [PDF]
Metaphysics, 2015 In constructive empiricism Van Fraassen intends to defend the epistemological distinction between truth and empirical adequacy as well as between cognitive belief and pragmatic acceptance, based on epistemological distinction between observable entities ...
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Constructive Empiricism in a Social World: Reply to Richard Healey [PDF]
, 2019 Constructive empiricism implies that if van Fraassen does not believe that scientific theories and his positive philosophical theories, including his contextual theory of explanation, are empirically adequate, he cannot accept them, and hence he cannot ...
Park, Seungbae
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