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What Voting Power Cannot Be

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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On the Question of Identification of a Scientific Theory (A Reply to "Van Fraassen's Concept of Empirical Theory" by Pérez Ransanz)

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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From Moral Supervenience to Moral Contingentism (In One Easy Step!)

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 224-237, September 2026.
ABSTRACT According to the Divide & Conquer (DC) strategy (Fogal and Risberg 2020) for explaining moral supervenience, the modal covariation between moral and natural properties can be partly explained by appeal to pure moral principles. Bhogal (2022) has recently argued that DC fails.
Alexios Stamatiadis‐Bréhier
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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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UNWARRANTED CONFIDENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POVERTY OF ANTI‐REALISM

History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 271-297, June 2026.
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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O empirismo construtivo e o argumento de Musgrave: um problema ou um pseudoproblema?

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Resumo 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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Social movements and the synecdoche problem

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 385-412, June 2026.
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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Skepticism and Ontological Parsimony

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 107, Issue 2, Page 86-98, June 2026.
ABSTRACT External world skepticism is often thought to entail that we should suspend judgment about the existence of the external world. I challenge this orthodoxy by arguing that, when combined with a plausible principle of ontological parsimony, the skeptical challenge intensifies into an argument for outright disbelief in the external world.
James H. McIntyre
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The Problem of Unobservable A Defense of Van Fraassen’s Distinction between Observable and Unobservable [PDF]

Metaphysics, 2015
In constructive empiricism Van Fraassen intends to defend the epistemological distinction between truth and empirical adequacy as well as between cognitive belief and pragmatic acceptance, based on epistemological distinction between observable entities ...
Jahangir Moazzenzade, Mirsaeid Mousavi Karimi   +1 more
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