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Experimental effects and causal representations [PDF]
, 2017 In experimental settings, scientists often “make” new things, in which case the aim is to intervene in order to produce experimental objects and processes—characterized as ‘effects’.
Keyser, Vadim
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Empiricism, Stances, And The Problem Of Voluntarism [PDF]
, 2011 Classical empiricism leads to notorious problems having to do with the (at least prima facie) lack of an acceptable empiricist justification of empiricism itself. Bas van Fraassen claims that his idea of the empirical stance can deal with such problems.
Baumann, Peter
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The Return of Causal Powers? [PDF]
, 2021 Powers, capacities and dispositions (in what follows I will use these terms synonymously) have become prominent in recent debates in metaphysics, philosophy of science and other areas of philosophy.
Hüttemann, Andreas
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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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The agentive achievement of acceptance
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 1, Page 3-24, July 2025.Abstract Is acceptance an act or a state? Jonathan Cohen is often seen as a proponent of the view that acceptance is a mental act. In contrast, Michael Bratman claims that acceptance is a mental state. This paper argues that the evidence supports a more subtle approach.
Samuel Boardman
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El concepto de teoría empírica según van Fraassen
Crítica, 2018 En los años setenta cristaliza un nuevo enfoque en la filosofía de la ciencia, el cual venía gestándose desde diferentes direcciones. Se conforma una concepción de teoría empírica —tanto de su naturaleza como de su estructura y función esencialmente ...
Ana Rosa Pérez Ransanz
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Constructive Empiricism in a Social World: Reply to Richard Healey [PDF]
, 2019 Constructive empiricism implies that if van Fraassen does not believe that scientific theories and his positive philosophical theories, including his contextual theory of explanation, are empirically adequate, he cannot accept them, and hence he cannot ...
Park, Seungbae
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Some attitudes we usually do not have
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 1, Page 300-324, July 2025.Abstract I present a new attitude puzzle involving disjunction. Specifically, though it can sound strange to ascribe the belief that ϕ$\phi$ or ψ$\psi$ when ⌜ϕ⌝$\ulcorner \phi \urcorner$ and ⌜ψ⌝$\ulcorner \psi \urcorner$ are about very different subject‐matters, we can assure ourselves that the strangeness is merely pragmatic because of the alethic ...
Daniel Drucker
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Teachers as epistemic agents: A case study of interdisciplinary pedagogy
British Educational Research Journal, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 1128-1148, June 2025.Abstract This qualitative case study explores teachers' epistemic agency during the implementation of interdisciplinary pedagogy in an Israeli high school. We examined science teachers collaborating on curriculum design through observations of weekly meetings.
Vered Resnick, Yifat Ben David Kolikant
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