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Constructive Empiricism Without Underdetermination [PDF]
, 2007 According to a widely shared view, Bas van Fraassen is one of the main proponents of the argument from underdetermination. I argue that this opinion rests on a misreading of the Scientific Image.
Van Dyck, Maarten, Maarten Van Dyck
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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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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 ...
Jahangir Moazzenzade +1 more
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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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QUAL ONTOLOGIA PARA O EMPIRISMO CONSTRUTIVO?
Princípios, 2014 Is there an ontological question relative to van Fraassen’s Constructive Empiricism? It seems so, despite this philosophical position, a reference for contemporary Empiricism, presenting itself as an epistemological thesis.
Alessio Gava
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DIRECTIONS IN HISTORICISM: LANGUAGE, EXPERIENCE, AND PRAGMATIC ADJUDICATION
Zygon, 1991 . This article examines the current affirmation within theology of historicism, with its assumption that the historical realm, broadly construed, is the only arena of human activity and knowledge and its repudiation of traditional forms of ...
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Verbum et Ecclesia, 2014 Panentheism: A functional and inductive endeavour in the dialogue between science and religion. Panentheism is an approach that gains more and more popularity in both systematic and practical theology, as well as in philosophy. But what lies at the heart
Johan Buitendag
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Agency, Causation, and Empiricism
, 2021 Price claims that the agency theory of causation could be understood as a sophisticated form of either realism or empiricism (but not a simple-minded form of any of them).
Majid D. Beni +2 more
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, 2019 This paper presents a sketch of a moderately anti-realist position in philosophy of science that is a modification of Van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism and that I call ‘adaptive empiricism’.
Sub History and Philosophy of Science +5 more
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