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Reflections on reflection: Van Fraassen on belief

Synthese, 1994
In 'Belief and the Will', van Fraasssen employed a diachronic Dutch Book argument to support a counterintuitive principle called Reflection. Tere and subsequently van Fraassen has put forth Reflection as a linchpin for his views in epistemology and the philosophy of science, and for the voluntarism (first-person reports of subjective probability ...
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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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Présentation du professeur Bas van Fraassen

Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 2000
Ghins MichelGhins Michel. Présentation du professeur Bas van Fraassen. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 98, n°3, 2000. pp. 445-448.
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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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On Rejecting Foss's Image of Van Fraassen

Philosophy of Science, 1987
Foss's critique of van Fraassen's constructive empiricism is shown to be completely wide of the mark (Foss 1984, van Fraassen 1980). Foss misunderstands van Fraassen's use of the terms ‘observable’, ‘phenomena’, ‘empirical adequacy’, and ‘epistemic community’. He misconstrues constructive empiricism as making knowledge, and perhaps existence, dependent
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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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Van Fraassen's Modal Model of Quantum Mechanics

Philosophy of Science, 1974
Bas van Fraassen in [4] has recently tried to use modal logic to solve the measurement problem of quantum mechanics. His model is based on a method of expressing quantum states developed by Hugh Everett [1] called the “relative state formulation.” Unfortunately, Everett's mathematics cannot be generalized as van Fraassen requires. The difficulty itself
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Meriti e demeriti dell'empirismo costruttivo di Bas van Fraassen

2020
Constructive empiricism affirms that science aims to give us theories that are empirically adequate, that is, coherent with the observable phenomena. Unlike sci entific realism, according to which we should believe scientific theories when they give us good reason to think that they are true, constructive empiricism, as articu lated and defended by Bas
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Inference to the Best Explanation and van Fraassen’s Contextual Theory of Explanation: Reply to Park

Axiomathes, 2021
Yunus Prasetya
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Van Fraassen, Bas

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