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Perilous thoughts: comment on van Fraassen

Philosophical Studies, 2009
Bas van Fraassen’s empiricist reading of Perrin’s achievement invites the question: whose doubts about atoms did Perrin put to rest? This comment recontextualizes the argument and applies the notion of empirical grounding to some contemporary work in behavioral biology.
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Van Fraassen on Explanation

The Journal of Philosophy, 1987
AbstractCoauthored by Philip Kitcher, deals critically with the view – whose most influential proponent is Bas van Fraassen – that the traditional problems of scientific explanation can be resolved by means of pragmatic considerations alone. This approach, elaborated in 1980 in The Scientific Image , has found much favor among philosophers of science ...
Philip Kitcher, Wesley Salmon
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