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Scientific Representation and Realism

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2011
After a brief presentation of what I take to be the representational démarche in science, I stress the fundamental role of true judgements in model construction.
Michel Ghins
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Measurement perspective, process, and the pandemic. [PDF]

Eur J Philos Sci, 2021
Keyser V, Howland H.
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Laws, Symmetry, and Symmetry Breaking; Invariance, Conservation Principles, and Objectivity [PDF]

, 2002
Given its importance in modern physics, philosophers of science have paid surprisingly little attention to the subject of symmetries and invariances, and they have largely neglected the subtopic of symmetry breaking.
Earman, John
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Moral underdetermination and a new skeptical challenge. [PDF]

Synthese, 2022
Baumann M.
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Van Fraassen, Everett, and the Critique of the Copenhagen View of Measurement

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2008
Bas van Fraassen advocates a “Copenhagen variant” of the modal interpretation of quantum mechanics. However, he believes that the Copenhagen approach to measurement is not fully satisfactory, since it seems to rule out the possibility of providing a ...
Stefano Osnaghi
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A Case for Observability. [PDF]

Perspect Behav Sci, 2022
Bampaloukas I.
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Open Problems in Relational Quantum Mechanics [PDF]

, 2017
The Rovelli relational interpretation of quantum mechanics (RQM) is based on the assumption according to which the notion of observer-independent state of a physical system is to be rejected. In RQM the primary target of the theory is the analysis of the
Laudisa, Federico
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Revisiting Reichenbach's logic. [PDF]

Synthese, 2021
Estrada-González L, Cano-Jorge F.
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Transcendental Idealism among the Jersey Metaphysicians [PDF]

, 2009
A discussion van Fraassen's book Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective that focuses on his account of time as a logical space and on his attitudes towards ...
Belot, Gordon
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What would it Mean to Directly Observe Electrons?

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2004
In this paper it is argued that a proper understanding of the justification of perceptual beliefs leaves open the possibility that normal humans, unaided by microscopes, could genuinely know, by direct observation, of the existence of a theoretical ...
David Mitsuo Nixon
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