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El criterio de empirical grounding en el Estructuralismo Empirista [PDF]

open access: yesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2018
El Estructuralismo Empirista de van Fraassen ha sido puesto en jaque por lo que se conoce como la objeción de pérdida de la realidad: la preeminencia de los factores pragmáticos en la representación científica de los fenómenos parece soslayar el papel ...
Bruno Borge, Susana Lucero
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The Nature of Knowledge and Epistemic Interests of Radiography Science-An Analysis of Doctoral Dissertations Using Critical Normative Epistemology Framework. [PDF]

open access: yesScand J Caring Sci
ABSTRACT Background and Aim Radiography science is a health sciences discipline and a knowledge system focusing on research into medical imaging and radiation therapy‐related phenomena: patient care, technology, safety and quality in these environments.
Sanna T, Helena LK, Mervi S, Eija M.
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How to Overcome Antirealists’ Objections to Scientific Realism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Van Fraassen contends that there is no argument that rationally compels us to disbelieve a successful theory, T. I object that this contention places upon him the burden of showing that scientific antirealists’ favorite arguments, such as the pessimistic
Park, Seungbae
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The Disastrous Implications of the 'English' View of Rationality in a Social World [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Van Fraassen (2007, 2017) consistently uses the English view of rationality to parry criticisms from scientific realists. I assume for the sake of argument that the English view of rationality is tenable, and then argue that it has disastrous ...
Park, Seungbae
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On the pragmatic equivalence between representing data and phenomena [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Van Fraassen argues that data provide the target-end structures required by structuralist accounts of scientific representation. But models represent phenomena not data.
Nguyen, James
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Review of Bas van Fraassen. Scientific representation: paradoxes of perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Central to Kuhn’s notion of incommensurability are the ideas of meaning variance and lexicon, and the impossibility of translation of terms across different theories.
Massimi, Michela
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Bas Van Fraassen y la Ley de Hardy-Weinberg: una discusión y desarrolo de su diagnóstico

open access: yesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2008
O objetivo deste trabalho é discutir e desenvolver o diagnóstico que efetua van Fraassen (1987, p. 110) da lei de Hardy-Weinberg, de acordo coo qual esta: 1) não pode ser considerada uma lei a ser utilizada como un axioma da teoria genética de ...
Pablo Lorenzano
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On the role of explanatory and systematic power in scientific reasoning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The paper investigates measures of explanatory power and how to define the inference schema “Inference to the Best Explanation”. It argues that these measures can also be used to quantify the systematic power of a hypothesis and the inference schema ...
Brössel, Peter
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Datos, fenómenos y representación: Sobre el estructuralismo empirista de van Fraassen

open access: yesIdeas y Valores, 2015
Se analizan ciertos conceptos del estructuralismo empirista de Bas van Fraassen, en particular, el de representación, para intentar una crítica a su posición con respecto al vínculo entre los modelos de las teorías y, en última instancia, el mundo físico
José Luis Rolleri
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Image et théorie scientifique

open access: yesGéographie et Cultures, 2016
Images and sciences have ancient and equivocal relations. Some scholars think images give a false representation of the logical structure of reality, while others affirm that they have pedagogical virtues and may be actually objective. The present debate
Hervé Regnauld
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