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Van Fraassen e a observação: o suporte da filosofia parece indispensável [PDF]

, 2017
O empirismo construtivo, a vertente antirrealista proposta pelo filósofo holandês Bas van Fraassen em 1980, depende de maneira crucial da distinção entre entidades observáveis e inobserváveis. Em 2004 e 2005, F. A.
Gava, Alessio
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Temporal dimension of new-Zeno paradoxes [PDF]

Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"
The paper investigates some properties of new-Zeno paradoxes. New-Zeno paradoxes are thought experiments whose conditions are set up in terms of Zeno sequences of numbers, i.e.
E. V. Borisov
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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
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Structuralism as a Stance

Philosophy of Physics
In this paper, I argue that ontic structural realism is best understood not as a thesis or doctrine concerning how the world fundamentally is, but rather as a “stance” in the sense of van Fraassen (2002).
Kerry McKenzie
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Mereological Perspectivism in Philosophy of Biology

Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper presents the philosophical implications of the position that we call mereological perspectivism. Mereological perspectivism asserts that determining whether a composite biological object constitutes a single unit (an individual) necessarily depends on the selection of privileged parts of the composite.
Adrian Stencel, Javier Suárez
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Le modèle pragmatique de l'explication scientifique chez van Fraassen et la critique de Kitcher et Salmon [PDF]

, 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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Observation in Constructive Empiricism: Arbitrary or Incoherent?

Crítica, 2018
EI empirismo constructivo se halla inapropiadamente motivado por la doctrina empirista general. Sin embargo, sostenemos que es posible encontrar una motivacion para dicho empirismo en la peculiar mezcla entre la teoría de la decisión y algunos hechos ...
Alberto Cordero
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The bayesian and the abductivist

Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 921-937, December 2025.
Abstract A major open question in the borderlands between epistemology and philosophy of science concerns whether Bayesian updating and abductive inference are compatible. Some philosophers—most influentially Bas van Fraassen—have argued that they are not.
Mattias Skipper, Olav Benjamin Vassend
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Sleeping Beauty and the demands of non‐ideal rationality

Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 1072-1092, December 2025.
Abstract If an agent can't live up to the demands of ideal rationality, fallback norms come into play that take into account the agent's limitations. A familiar human limitation is our tendency to lose information. How should we compensate for this tendency?
Wolfgang Schwarz
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Models, truth and realism: assessing Bas van Fraassen's views on scientific representation

Manuscrito, 2011
This paper is devoted to an analysis of some aspects of Bas van Fraassen's views on representation. While I agree with most of his claims, I disagree on the following three issues.
Michel Ghins
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