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Las entidades observables en el empirismo constructivo de Van Fraassen [PDF]

, 2010
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-inobservable.
Taghabue, Rosana
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What Voting Power Cannot Be

Noûs, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Críticas a la distinción observacional - no observacional de Van Fraassen [PDF]

, 2002
En este trabajo me propongo, luego de hacer un brevísimo repaso de las principales críticas que recibiera la distinción, centrarme en una de ellas e intentar mostrar que la misma no tiene la fuerza que algunos le han asignado.
Velasco, Marisa
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From Moral Supervenience to Moral Contingentism (In One Easy Step!)

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Subdeterminación y empirismo constructivo [PDF]

, 2009
En el debate entre realistas y antirrealistas científicos la tesis de la subdeterminación de la teoría por la evidencia ha sido presentada como uno de los desafios más fuertes que debe enfrentar la posición realista.
Gentile, Nélida
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Laws and Reasons Why

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Laws play some role in explanations: at the very least, they somehow connect what is explained, or the explanandum, to what explains, or the explanans. Thus, thermodynamical laws connect the match's being struck and its lightning, so that the former causes the latter; and laws about set formation connect Socrates' existence with {Socrates}'s ...
Julio De Rizzo
wiley   +1 more source

Fixed-Point Posets in Theories of Truth [PDF]

, 2019
We show that any coherent complete partial order is obtainable as the fixed-point poset of the strong Kleene jump of a suitably chosen first-order ground model.
Mackereth, Stephen
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Linearism, Universalism and Scope Ambiguities

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 59-71, March 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper, I distinguish two possible families of semantics of the open future: Linearism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated with respect to a unique possible future history, and Universalism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated universally quantifying on the histories passing through the moment of
Aldo Frigerio
wiley   +1 more source

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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