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A Coherence Theory of Jurisprudence in the Spirit of Jhering: A Restatement, Update, and Defence of Jhering’s Early Methodology

Ratio Juris, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 198-235, November 2025.
Abstract This essay revisits the early methodology of Rudolph von Jhering. It has often been dismissed due to its heavy metaphysics, unwieldy presentation, and alleged neglect of teleology. But a charitable reconstruction in contemporary terms reveals a coherence theory of jurisprudence that is in many ways superior to current coherence accounts.
Pascal Felix Meier
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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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How do you assert a graph? Towards an account of depictions in scientific testimony

Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 678-699, September 2025.
Abstract I extend the literature on norms of assertion to the ubiquitous use of graphs in scientific papers and presentations, which I term “graphical testimony.” On my account, the testimonial presentation of a graph involves commitment to both (a) the in‐context reliability of the graph's framing devices and (b) the perspective‐relative accuracy of ...
Corey Dethier
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How to save van Fraassen’s own antirealism: a modest proposal

Perspectiva Filosófica, 2020
Bas van Fraassen’s antirealist view of science and its aim, constructive empiricism, notoriously rests upon a distinction between observable and unobservable entities.
Alessio Gava
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Bas van Fraassen on Scientific Representation [PDF]

Analysis, 2010
Participation in a Symposium in Analysis on van Fraassen's book Scientific Representation. Paradoxes of Perspective, together with Gabriele Contessa, Steven French and RIG Hughes, wih a summary and a reply by Bas van Fraassen.
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Rational Slack and Doxastic Grain

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 3, Page 173-185, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper argues for granular permissivism, roughly the view that evidence is sometimes permissive between doxastic attitudes at different levels of grain. The argument identifies three sources of rational slack between granularly differing doxastic states: doxastic tidiness, safety, and evidential responsiveness.
Bradford Saad
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Conceptual engineering: Conceptual innovation via conceptual refinement

Metaphilosophy, Volume 56, Issue 3-4, Page 344-355, July 2025.
Abstract Mona Simion and Christoph Kelp (2020) have recently challenged the traditional conceptual engineering project. They defend a reorientation of this project that moves away from correcting conceptual shortcomings and emphasizes conceptual innovation instead. Central to their proposal is the role played by etiological functions. The present paper
Otávio Bueno
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Van Frasssen, Everett, and the critique of the copenhagem view of measurement

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2010
Bas van Fraassen advocates a “Copenhagen variant” of the modal interpretation of quantum mechanics. However, he believes that the Copenhagen approach to measurement is not fully satisfactory, since it seems to rule out the possibility of providing a ...
Stefano Osnaghi
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Common-Sense Realism and the Unimaginable Otherness of Science

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2007
Bas van Fraassen endorses both common-sense realism — the view, roughly, that the ordinary macroscopic objects that we take to exist actually do exist — and constructive empiricism — the view, roughly, that the aim of science is truth about the ...
Bradley Monton
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Kusch and van Fraassen on Microscopic Experience

REVISTA LATINOAMERICANA DE FILOSOFÍA, 2019
Martin Kusch has recently defended Bas van Fraassen’s controversial view on microscopes, according to which these devices are not “windows on an invisible world”, but rather “image generators”. Both authors also claim that, since in a microscopic detection it is not possible to empirically investigate the geometrical relations between all the elements ...
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