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Lakatos’ Quasi-empiricism in the Philosophy of Mathematics [PDF]
, 2015 Imre Lakatos' views on the philosophy of mathematics are important and they have often been underappreciated. The most obvious lacuna in this respect is the lack of detailed discussion and analysis of his 1976a paper and its implications for the ...
Michael Shaffer
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Neither Logical Empiricism nor Vitalism, but Organicism: What the Philosophy of Biology Was [PDF]
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2015 Philosophy of biology is often said to have emerged in the last third of the twentieth century. Prior to this time, it has been alleged that the only authors who engaged philosophically with the life sciences were either logical empiricists who sought to
Gawne, Richard, Nicholson, Daniel J.
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THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF EMPIRICISM IN LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM: Sources and contemporary empirical researches [PDF]
Синопсис: текст, контекст, медіа, 2013 The article deals with the research of the basic principles of empiricism in Reader-response theory within the environment of American and European literary criticism, beginning with I.A.
Liudmyla V. Anisimova
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The Coherence of Empiricism [PDF]
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2000 Rationalists often argue that empiricism is incoherent and conclude, on that basis, that some knowledge is a priori. I contend that such arguments against empiricism cannot be parlayed into an argument in support of the a priori since rationalism is ...
Casullo, Albert
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Numbers, Empiricism and the A Priori [PDF]
Logos & Episteme, 2020 The present paper deals with the ontological status of numbers and considers Frege ́s proposal in Grundlagen upon the background of the Post-Kantian semantic turn in analytical philosophy. Through a more systematic study of his philosophical premises, it
Ramirez Calle, Olga
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Probabilistic empiricism. [PDF]
Eur J Philos SciAbstract Modal Empiricism in philosophy of science proposes to understand the possibility of modal knowledge from experience by replacing talk of possible worlds with talk of possible situations, which are coarse-grained, bounded and relative to background conditions.
Ruyant Q, Suárez M.
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On Knowing and Seeing: Groundwork for a New Empiricism
Grazer Philosophische Studien, 2021 This is a discussion note on Michael Ayers’ Knowing and Seeing. Groundwork for a New Empiricism.
Mira Magdalena Sickinger
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Radical empiricism and machine learning research
Journal of Causal Inference, 2021 I contrast the “data fitting” vs “data interpreting” approaches to data science along three dimensions: Expediency, Transparency, and Explainability. “Data fitting” is driven by the faith that the secret to rational decisions lies in the data itself.
J. Pearl
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The Scientific Approach to Risk and the Risk Concept of Science [PDF]
Sociální Pedagogika, 2015 The paper “The Scientific Approach to Risk and the Risk Concept of Science” attempts to analyze the relationship between two problematic concepts of empiricism in present-day science (primitive empiricism, brutal empiricism), two characteristics of ...
Bohuslav
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