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Replies to Healey’s Comments Regarding van Fraassen’s Positions [PDF]
, 2020 Healey (2019a) makes four comments on my (Park, 2019a) objections to van Fraassen’s positions. The four comments concern the issues of whether ‘disbelief’ is appropriate or inappropriate to characterize van Fraassen’s position, what the relationship ...
Park, Seungbae
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A Topological Study of Contextuality and Modality in Quantum Mechanics [PDF]
, 2006 Kochen-Specker theorem rules out the non-contextual assignment of values to physical magnitudes. Here we enrich the usual orthomodular structure of quantum mechanical propositions with modal operators.
B.C. Fraassen van +22 more
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Evolutionary Approach to Realism [PDF]
روش شناسی علوم انسانی, 2020 Common sense realism and scientific realism are two metaphysical thesis. The former accepts the existence of the observable entities of common sense knowledge and the later accepts the unobservable entities necessary for the well-established scientific ...
Farshid Daneshpajooh +2 more
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Empirical adequacy and scientific discovery [PDF]
, 2008 O presente trabalho busca mostrar que o empirismo construtivo de Bas van Fraassen, segundo enunciado em sua obra The Scientific Image, conduz a dificuldades consideráveis em filosofia da ciência.
Simon, Samuel
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UNWARRANTED CONFIDENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POVERTY OF ANTI‐REALISM
History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Poverty of Anti‐Realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History, edited by Tor Egil Førland and Branko Mitrović, celebrates the new dawn of historical realism, which it claims supersedes the erroneous and harmful anti‐realism.
Jouni‐Matti Kuukkanen
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Crítica, 2018 En este texto, van Fraassen responde a varias preguntas que se le han planteado sobre sus concepciones acerca de la ciencia. Intenta mostrar que se puede dar una explicación que implique que una teoría científica, aunque no se puede identificar con una ...
Bas C. van Fraassen
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Scientific Antirealists Have Set Fire to Their Own Houses [PDF]
, 2017 Scientific antirealists run the argument from underconsideration against scientific realism. I argue that the argument from underconsideration backfires on antirealists’ positive philosophical theories, such as the contextual theory of explanation (van ...
Park, Seungbae
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The Problem of Unobserved Anomalies [PDF]
, 2018 Scientific antirealism, the view that successful theories are empirically adequate, is untenable in light of the problem of unobserved anomalies that since past scientists could not observe the anomalies that caused the replacement of past theories with ...
Park, Seungbae
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Social movements and the synecdoche problem
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract Social movements are central to our contemporary understanding of social change. Accordingly, we should want to be able to say what it is that makes social movements special; that is, to say what it is that movements in their entirety have that random samples of people and organizations within the movement do not have.
Megan Hyska
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Medición científica entre la intervención y la representación
Valenciana, 2016 Se analiza la propuesta empirista de van Fraassen en torno a la medición científica considerando las objeciones hechas a las teorías representacionalistas de la medición, para argumentar que la medición es un proceso complejo iterativo en el que teoría y
Gilda Macedo Mira Andreu
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