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Category Mistakes Electrified. [PDF]

open access: yesRev Philos Psychol
Mankowitz P.
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Van Fraassen e a observação: o suporte da filosofia parece indispensável [PDF]

open access: yesGuairacá, 2017
O empirismo construtivo, a vertente antirrealista proposta pelo filósofo holandês Bas van Fraassen em 1980, depende de maneira crucial da distinção entre entidades observáveis e inobserváveis. Em 2004 e 2005, F. A.
Alessio Gava
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Scientific Theories and Philosophical Stances: Themes From Van Fraassen

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Since the publication of his seminal monograph "The scientific image", Bas van Fraassen is a key figure in philosophy of science. In this book, other philosophers with various outlooks critically discuss his work on theories, empiricism and philosophical
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Van Fraassen's Instrumentalism

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1985
In The Scientific Image [1980], Bas van Fraassen argues against a particular form of scientific realism and for a view of his own which he dubs constructive empiricism. The version of realism he intends to refute is the view that the aim of science is to construct theories that are literally true, and that to accept a scientific theory is to believe ...
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Van Fraassen's metaphysical move

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 1991
Abstract Various aspects of van Fraassen's constructive empiricism are discussed. His concept of observability is said to have opened few unresolvable dilemmas. It is because of the confusion between observable/non‐observable and testable/metaphysical distinctions.
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