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Review of Bas van Fraassen. Scientific representation: paradoxes of perspective [PDF]

, 2009
Central to Kuhn’s notion of incommensurability are the ideas of meaning variance and lexicon, and the impossibility of translation of terms across different theories.
Massimi, Michela
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Image et théorie scientifique

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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Problems with Using Evolutionary Theory in Philosophy [PDF]

, 2017
Does science move toward truths? Are present scientific theories (approximately) true? Should we invoke truths to explain the success of science? Do our cognitive faculties track truths? Some philosophers say yes, while others say no, to these questions.
A Bird, B Fraassen van, D Papineau, E Ruttkamp-Bloem, E Sober, H Cruz De, H Putnam, K Atkins, KB Wray, KB Wray, KB Wray, KB Wray, M Mizrahi, P Kyle Stanford, S Park, S Psillos, Seungbae Park   +16 more
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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

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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Scientific Antirealists Have Set Fire to Their Own Houses [PDF]

, 2017
Scientific antirealists run the argument from underconsideration against scientific realism. I argue that the argument from underconsideration backfires on antirealists’ positive philosophical theories, such as the contextual theory of explanation (van ...
Park, Seungbae
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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
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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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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
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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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