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Géographie 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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O Voluntarismo de Van Fraassen
Princípios: Revista de Filosofia (UFRN), 2023 Em The Empirical Stance, van Fraassen propõe o voluntarismo de posturas epistêmicas: é racional tudo o que é racionalmente permitido, e apenas a incoerência é racionalmente proibida. O voluntarismo de posturas é uma concepção permissiva de racionalidade, que permite a um agente escolher qual postura epistêmica adotar, onde uma postura epistêmica é ...
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Deflationism, realism, and fictionalism
Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 526-530, September 2026.Frances Egan's Deflating mental representation gives a forceful defence of deflationism about mental representation. Deflationism is a form of selective realism: It is realist about vehicles of mental representation, but not contents. In this commentary, I will argue that deflationism is unstable.
Adam Toon
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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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Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 520-525, September 2026.It is commonly noted that representations are sometimes posited in order to explain behavior. Call this reasoning “abductive”. Edward Tolman used abductive reasoning as a basis for thinking that rats have a cognitive map. This reasoning sits uncomfortably with Egan's contention that representations—such as cognitive maps—are not explanatory, but are ...
Ken Aizawa
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Scientific Theories and Philosophical Stances. Themes from van Fraassen
Since the publication of his seminal monograph "The scientific image", Bas van Fraassen is a key figure in philosophy of science. In this book, other philosophers with various outlooks critically discuss his work on theories, empiricism and philosophical
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Las entidades observables en el empirismo constructivo de Van Fraassen [PDF]
, 2010 Fil: Taghabue, Rosana. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentina.James Ladyman en 2000 publica: What's Really Wrong Wlth ConsttuctIve Empiricism? Van Fraassen and the Metaphysics of Modality" donde ahonda en los problemas de la distinción observable ...
Taghabue, Rosana
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Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 548-562, September 2026.ABSTRACT “Almost everyone,” Ronald Dworkin wrote in Sovereign Virtue, “assumes that democracy means equal voting power.” What, then, is voting power? The standard view defines it as the probability that a vote changes the outcome assuming that each possible combination of votes is equiprobable.
Daniel Wodak
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O empirismo construtivo e o argumento de Musgrave: um problema ou um pseudoproblema?
Trans/Form/AçãoResumo Em 1985, Alan Musgrave levantou uma séria objeção contra a possibilidade, por parte de um empirista construtivo, de traçar de maneira coerente a distinção - crucial para ele - entre observáveis e inobserváveis.
Alessio Gava
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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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