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van Fraassen's Semanticism

PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1984
Bas van Fraassen has formulated a semantical or model theoretic analysis of the structure of scientific theories. He contrasts his semantical approach with the syntactic approach of the logical positivists and argues that his theory is preferable on a number of grounds. My aims in this paper will be threefold.
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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 Unappreciated Realism

Philosophy of Science, 2003
What is not often noted about Bas van Fraassen's distinctive approach to the scientific realism issue is that constructive empiricism, as he defines it, seems to involve a distinctively realist stance in regard to large parts of natural science. This apparent defection from the ranks of his more uncompromisingly anti-realist colleagues raises many ...
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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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2011
Bas C. van Fraassen The Scientific Image (1980), .
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Full Belief and Probability: Comments on Van Fraassen

Dialogue, 1997
As van Fraassen pointed out in his opening remarks, Henry Kyburg's lottery paradox has long been known to raise difficulties in attempts to represent full belief as a probability greater than or equal to p, where p is some number less than 1. Recently, Patrick Maher has pointed out that to identify full belief with probability equal to 1 presents ...
Harper, William, Hajek, Alan
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Empiricism from Ockham to van Fraassen

2021
This chapter gives a brief overview of the empiricist tradition in philosophy. Although medieval nominalism primarily was motivated by logical and semantic considerations, in retrospect it is fair to view it as an empiricist position and a natural starting point for an overview of empiricism.
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Laudatio: Professor Bas van Fraassen

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Van Fraassen on Preparation and Measurement

Philosophy of Science, 1996
Van Fraassen’s 1991 modal interpretation of Quantum Mechanics offers accounts of measurement and state preparation. I argue that both accounts overlook a class of interactions I call General Unitary Measurements, or GUMs. Ironically, GUMs are significant for van Fraassen’s account of measurement because they challenge it, and significant for his ...
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