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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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On Van Fraassen's Critique of Abductive Reasoning

The Philosophical Quarterly, 1996
Adoptant l'attitude critique propre a A. Menuge, l'A. montre que ni l'argument du mauvais lot, ni l'argument de l'indifference, ni la conception de la non-observabilite, developpes par Van Fraassen contre le raisonnement adbuctif, ne parviennent a refuter le principe du privilege et l'approximation de la verite qui fondent l'empirisme ...
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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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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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Images of van Fraassen

Metascience, 2009
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Van Fraassen’s Constructive Empiricism and the Concept of Probability

1989
This paper contrasts van Fraassen’s conception of probability and his general philosophy of science to realism.Van Fraassen provides his antirealistic philosophy of science with a modal frequency interpretation of probability.The objective of the present paper then is to show that the modal frequency interpretation of probability can well be embedded ...
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Van Fraassen, Bas

The Handbook of Economic Methodology is a major multidisciplinary reference work on the developing field of economic methodology.
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Bas van Fraassen

Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 1997
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van Fraassen’s Constructive Empiricism

Cogito, 1997
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Van Fraassen, Bas

1998
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