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Varieties of Musicological Empiricism [PDF]
Empiricism should not be seen to provide an overarching criterion of meaningfulness for musicological concepts nor a single comprehensive methodology for music research. Understood as methodological concern with observation (perception, experience, etc.),
Erkki Huovinen
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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’. This modification is motivated by the intuition that assessing what is or is not observable should be an important element of theory choice for an ...
Sub History and Philosophy of Science +5 more
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Intentionality versus Constructive Empiricism [PDF]
By focussing on the intentional character of observation in science, we argue that Constructive Empiricism – B.C. van Fraassen’s much debated and explored view of science – is inconsistent.
Buekens, F.A.I. +5 more
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Radical empiricism, empirical modelling and the nature of knowing [PDF]
This paper explores connections between Radical Empiricism (RE), a philosophic attitude developed by William James at the beginning of the 20th century, and Empirical Modelling (EM), an approach to computer- based modelling that has been developed by the
Beynon, Meurig
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Conventionalism and the Impoverishment of the Space of Reasons: Carnap, Quine and Sellars
This article examines how Quine and Sellars develop informatively contrasting responses to a fundamental tension in Carnap’s semantics ca. 1950. Quine’s philosophy could well be styled ‘Essays in Radical Empiricism’; his assay of radical empiricism is ...
Kenneth R Westphal
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Collaborative empiricism in cognitive therapy for psychosis: A practice guide [PDF]
We outline our understanding of collaborative empiricism (CE) as used in cognitive therapy (CT) for psychosis. We discuss how CE can be thought of as a technique for facilitating cognitive change in the service of a client's goals, but also as an ...
Morrison, Anthony P., Hutton, Paul
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The Poverty of Empiricism [PDF]
Many researchers - and their advisors on research method - adopt a doctrine called empiricism, which claims that researchers may only use empirical methods. This restrictive doctrine impoverishes any academic discipline where it is dominant. The main reason is that a discipline only qualifies for the status of a science after it has progressed beyond ...
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Od Bacona do Hume’a – istota i odcienie empiryzmu w nowożytnej Anglii
The aim of the article is to give a brief overview of English empiricism, particularly in modern philosophy. The paper will firstly examine the pre-enlightenment thought of F. Bacon, upon which it will discuss the empiricism of J. Locke, G.
Bolesław Andrzejewski
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Revolusi Kopernikan Ala Immanuel Kant
The history of western philosophy is coloured by a long debate between rationalism and empiricism. Immanuel Kant then came to synthesise the very contradictive thought.
Moh Tamtowi
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McDowell’s Dogmatic Empiricism
McDowell’s Mind and World offers an epistemological proposal that can be considered as minimally empiricist. His proposal is a notion of experience —appearings—that has a conceptualized character and can serve as a justification for our beliefs.
Jesús Antonio Coll Mármol
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