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O projeto epistemológico empirista de Bas Van Fraassen: empirismo construtivo, epistemologia voluntarista, e empirismo estrutural [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, Florianópolis, 2013O presente trabalho versa sobre o projeto empirista de Bas van Fraassen, cuja obra é ...
Ferrador, Tiago Mathyas
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Image et théorie scientifique

open access: yesGéographie 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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Laws and Reasons Why

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 4, Page 354-365, December 2026.
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
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Le modèle pragmatique de l'explication scientifique chez van Fraassen et la critique de Kitcher et Salmon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
L'objectif de ce mémoire de maîtrise est d'analyser le modèle pragmatique de l'explication de van Fraassen à la suite de la critique de Kitcher et Salmon formulée dans « Van Fraassen on Explantation » (1987). Cette analyse est précédée par deux chapitres
Lamy-Canuel, Olivier
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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)

open access: yesCrítica, 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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Attention and Evidence

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 3, Page 480-493, November 2026.
ABSTRACT In traditional models, agents have ample reason to gather cost‐free evidence. Rational agents expect evidence gathering to weakly improve the quality of their decisions and the accuracy of their credences. These results are linked to more general principles of reflection and the value of knowledge taken to characterize genuine learning ...
David Thorstad
wiley   +1 more source

Van Fraassen's Long Journey from Isomorphism to Use [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Review of Bas Van Fraassen, Scientific Representation, Oxford University Press ...
Suárez, Mauricio
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Deflationism, realism, and fictionalism

open access: yesMind &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
wiley   +1 more source

Experience Becoming Fully Literate. Van Fraassen on the Verge of Constructivism

open access: yes, 2006
Kaiser MI, Rosenhagen R, Suhm C. Experience Becoming Fully Literate. Van Fraassen on the Verge of Constructivism. In: Berg-Hildebrand A, Suhm C, eds. Bas van Fraassen. The Fortunes of Empiricism . Münstersche Vorlesungen zur Philosophie. Vol 9. Berlin ;
Suhm, Christian   +6 more
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O empirismo construtivo e o argumento de Musgrave: um problema ou um pseudoproblema?

open access: yesTrans/Form/Ação
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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