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Mereological Perspectivism in Philosophy of Biology
Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT This paper presents the philosophical implications of the position that we call mereological perspectivism. Mereological perspectivism asserts that determining whether a composite biological object constitutes a single unit (an individual) necessarily depends on the selection of privileged parts of the composite.
Adrian Stencel, Javier Suárez
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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 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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The bayesian and the abductivist
Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 921-937, December 2025.Abstract A major open question in the borderlands between epistemology and philosophy of science concerns whether Bayesian updating and abductive inference are compatible. Some philosophers—most influentially Bas van Fraassen—have argued that they are not.
Mattias Skipper, Olav Benjamin Vassend
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Sleeping Beauty and the demands of non‐ideal rationality
Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 1072-1092, December 2025.Abstract If an agent can't live up to the demands of ideal rationality, fallback norms come into play that take into account the agent's limitations. A familiar human limitation is our tendency to lose information. How should we compensate for this tendency?
Wolfgang Schwarz
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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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, 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 ...
History and Foundations of Science +4 more
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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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Scientific Representation: A Long Journey from Pragmatics to Pragmatics
, 2010 Book Symposium on Bas C. van Fraassen: 'Scientific representation: Paradoxes of Perspective'.
James Ladyman +8 more
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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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