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Van Fraassen’s Constructive Empiricism — A Critique

1996
Van Fraassen’s Constructive Empiricism rests on the distinction between believing a theory to be true and believing it to be empirically adequate. This distinction in turn rests on an assumption which seems doubtful in the light of Goodman’s paradox.
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How Liberating Is Van Fraassen's Voluntarism?

Dialogue, 2000
RésuméBas van Fraassen soutient que le «Principe de Réflexion» constitue une contrainte sur la rationalité et il rattache ce principe à une sorte de volontarisme épistémologique, c'est-à-dire la doctrine selon laquelle la croyance est affaire de volonté.
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Laudatio: Professor Bas van Fraassen

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Bas van Fraassen on Religion and Knowledge

American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 2006
In his recent book, The Empirical Stance (2002), Bas van Fraassen elaborates on earlier suggestions of a religious view that has striking parallels with his constructive empiricism. A particularly salient feature consists in the way in which he keeps a critical distance from theoretical formulations both in science and religion, thus preferring a ...
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On Accepting Van Fraassen's Image of Science

Philosophy of Science, 1984
In his book, The Scientific Image, van Fraassen lucidly draws an alternative to scientific realism, which he calls “Constructive Empiricism”. In this epistemological theory, the concept of observability plays the pivotal role: acceptable theories may be believed only where what they say solely concerns observables.
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Replies to van Fraassen’s Comments: Bressan and Suppes on Modality

PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1972
In [5, Section 1, pp. 2 and 3] van Fraassen agrees that the correct account of Mach’s attempt must make essential use of modal concepts, but he makes some critical remarks on “the specific formulation adopted by Bressan.”
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Armstrong and van Fraassen on Probabilistic Laws of Nature

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2012
InWhat is a Law of Nature?(1983) David Armstrong promotes a theory of laws according to which laws of nature are contingent relations of necessitation between universals. The metaphysics Armstrong develops uses deterministic causal laws as paradigmatic cases of laws, but he thinks his metaphysics explicates other sorts of laws too, including ...
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Images of van Fraassen

Metascience, 2009
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Van Fraassen, Bas

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On Representation and Models in Bas van Fraassen’s Approach

2013
Professor van Fraassen’s characterization of representation and models requires taking into account several aspects. (1) His intellectual trajectory gives us key elements of the philosophical framework of his approach. (2) The philosophical context of representation and models in science involves the consideration of realms of analysis of ...
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