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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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Intentionality versus Constructive Empiricism [PDF]
, 2011 By focussing on the intentional character of observation in science, we argue that Constructive Empiricism – B.C. van Fraassen’s much debated and explored view of science – is inconsistent.
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Reflection, introspection, and book
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 3, Page 1136-1158, November 2025.Abstract The much‐debated Reflection principle states that a coherent agent's credences must match their estimates for their future credences. Defenders claim that there are Dutch‐book arguments in its favor, putting it on the same normative footing as probabilistic coherence.
Kevin J. S. Zollman, Kevin Dorst
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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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The “Positive Argument” for Constructive Empiricism and Inference to the Best Explanation [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper, I argue that the “positive argument” for Constructive Empiricism (CE), according to which CE “makes better sense of science, and of scientific activity, than realism does” (van Fraassen 1980, 73), is an Inference to the Best Explanation ...
Mizrahi, Moti
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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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Realism in Theology and Metaphysics [PDF]
, 2007 The paper will have three sections. In section one I briefly present and respond to Byrne’s argument against theological realism. In section two, I present van Fraassen’s argument against analytic metaphysics and I show how, if sound, it constitutes a ...
Rea, Michael C.
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In Defense of the Epistemic Imperative [PDF]
, 2018 Sample (2015) argues that scientists ought not to believe that their theories are true because they cannot fulfill the epistemic obligation to take the diachronic perspective on their theories. I reply that Sample’s argument imposes an inordinately heavy
A Chakravartty +26 more
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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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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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