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Religion and Science Conversation: A Case Illustration

Zygon, 1999
The March 1999 issue of Zygon provides a case illustration of a religion‐and‐science conversation. The three responses to the issues raised by The Humanizing Brain represent a spectrum ranging from skepticism to affirmation.
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Expanding the Empirical Realm: Constructive Empiricism and Augmented Observation [PDF]

, 2021
Manifestationalism holds that science aims only to give us theories that are correct about what has been observed thus far. Several philosophers, including Bas van Fraassen, have argued that manifestationalism cannot make sense of the scientific impetus ...
Dellsén, Finnur
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Extended Cognition and Constructive Empiricism

Axiomathes, 2022
AbstractAccording to constructive empiricists, accepting a scientific theory involves belief only that it is true of the observable world, where observability is defined in terms of what is detectable by the unaided senses. On this view, scientific instruments are machines that generate new observable data, but this data need not be interpreted as ...
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Scientific Realism and Constructive Empiricism

Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, 2020
Two conceptions of the contemporary philosophy of science are taken under consideration: scientific realism and constructive empiricism. Scientific realism presupposes 1) the conception of truth as the correspondence of knowledge to reality, 2) the real existence of entities postulated by a theory.
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Realismo Científico Empirista?

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 1997
In his influential criticism of scientific realism, Bas van Fraassen assumes that this doctrine is incompatible with empiricism, according to which the sole ultimate basis of knowledge is experience.
Sílvio Seno Chibeni
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O empirismo construtivo e o argumento de Musgrave: um problema ou um pseudoproblema?

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Resumo Em 1985, Alan Musgrave levantou uma séria objeção contra a possibilidade, por parte de um empirista construtivo, de traçar de maneira coerente a distinção - crucial para ele - entre observáveis e inobserváveis.
Alessio Gava
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Modal Rationalism and Constructive Realism: Models and Their Modality [PDF]

, 2010
I present a case for a rapprochement between aspects of rationalism and scientific realism, by way of a general framework employing modal epistemology and elements of 2-dimensional semantics (2DS). My overall argument strategy is meta-inductive: The bulk
Kallfelz, William
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REALİST VE REALİST KARŞITI GÖRÜŞLERDE GÖZLENEBİLİRLİK KAVRAMI

Felsefe Dünyası, 2004
This paper critically examines the central tenet of constructive empiricism, namely that the epistemological significance between observable and unobservabie entities plays a putative role for our attitudes toward scientific theories. More specifically,
Sedat Yazıcı
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Pojetí mechanismu v současné teorii vědy

Teorie vědy, 2016
Pojetí mechanismu v současné teorii vědy Abstrakt: Článek podává systematický kritický přehled o pojetí mechanismu v tzv. nové mechanistické filosofii (NMF). Nejdříve je popsán vznik a hlavní principy NMF. Je ukázáno, že NMF vznikla do značné míry jako
Arnošt Veselý
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Neo-Pyrrhonism, Empiricism, and Scientific Activity

, 2021
Pyrrhonism involves the inability to defend claims about the unobservable world, or, more generally, about what is really going on beyond the phenomena (SEXTUS EMPIRICUS, 1994).
Bueno, Otávio
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