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Analytic Philosophy, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 577-593, December 2025.Abstract The physicalist credo is that the world is physical. But some phenomena, such as minds, morals, and mathematics, appear to be nonphysical. While an uncompromising physicalism would reject these, a conciliatory physicalism need not if it can account for them in terms of an underlying physical basis.
Michael J. Raven
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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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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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Transcendental Idealism among the Jersey Metaphysicians [PDF]
, 2009 A discussion van Fraassen's book Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective that focuses on his account of time as a logical space and on his attitudes towards ...
Belot, Gordon
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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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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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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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Context-dependence in scientific representation
, 2010 In this essay I will argue that scientific representation is context-dependent. Specifically, context-dependent scientific representation is covered by the semantic view, as endorsed by van Fraassen. The semantic view as endorsed van Fraassen claims that
Michael Morales
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The insidiously enchanted forrest : essay review of ‘Scientific Representation’ by Bas C. van Fraassen [PDF]
, 2009 Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective (henceforth: Representation), B. C. van Fraassen's most recent, 400pp. contribution to the philosophy of science, is contemporary, varied, systematic, historical, exciting, provocative, empiricist ...
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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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