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Should We Believe in Cells, or Just Remain Agnostic about Them? A Critical Analysis Through Bas van Fraassen’s Lenses.

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
For constructive empiricism, being observable or unobservable is defining for deciding about the empirical adequacy and epistemic value of theory components. The classification of microscopic images has been particularly debated.
Juan Larrain
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Revisiting Reichenbach's logic. [PDF]

Synthese, 2021
Estrada-González L, Cano-Jorge F.
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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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Introduction to topical collection on perspectivism in science: metaphysical and epistemological reflections. [PDF]

Eur J Philos Sci, 2021
Massimi M.
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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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Bas van Fraassen on Success and Adequacy in Representing and Modelling [PDF]

, 2016
Michel Ghins
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É possível reabilitar o empirismo no Ensino de Ciências? Virtude pragmática sob a ótica antirrealista de Bas van Fraassen [PDF]

, 2022
Juliana Machado, Marcelo Gonzaga Rodrigues   +1 more
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The Real Problem with Hypothetical Constructs. [PDF]

Perspect Behav Sci, 2021
Burgos JE.
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Reviews

Zygon, 1987
Book Reviews in this article: The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists. By Martin J. S. Rudwick Evolution: A Theory in Crisis. By Michael Denton.
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Should physical symmetries guide metaphysics? Two reasons why they should maybe not. [PDF]

Eur J Philos Sci, 2023
López C.
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