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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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Deductive Cogency, understanding, and acceptance [PDF]
, 2017 Deductive Cogency holds that the set of propositions towards which one has, or is prepared to have, a given type of propositional attitude should be consistent and closed under logical consequence.
Dellsén, Finnur
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Problems with Using Evolutionary Theory in Philosophy [PDF]
, 2017 Does science move toward truths? Are present scientific theories (approximately) true? Should we invoke truths to explain the success of science? Do our cognitive faculties track truths? Some philosophers say yes, while others say no, to these questions.
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Epistemic Commitment in Structuralist Approach of Theories
Revista de Filosofia, 2012 The idea that the Structuralist Program is completely neutral in epistemological matters is widely extended. On the contrary, the article’s purpose is to show that while it is true that structuralism is neutral in the epistemological debate between ...
Germán Guerrero Pino
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Bas van Fraassen y la Ley de Hardy-Weinberg: Una Discussión y Desarrollo de su Diagnóstico
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2008 The aim of this article is to discuss and develop the diagnose of the Hardy- Weinberg law made by van Fraassen (1987, p. 110), according to which: 1) that law cannot be considered a law used as an axiom for the classical population genetics as a whole ...
Pablo Lorenzano
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Uma reflexão sobre o objeto de uma percepção ‘bem sucedida’
Aufklärung, 2017 Como testemunha a vasta produção de artigos e livros a respeito do assunto, observação e observabilidade constituem um tema crucial na filosofia da ciência.
Alessio Gava
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A Puzzle About Economic Explanation: Examining the Cournot and Bertrand Models of Duopoly Competition [PDF]
, 2017 Economists use various models to explain why it is that firms are capable of pricing above marginal cost. In this paper, we will examine two of them: the Cournot and Bertrand duopoly models. Economists generally accept both models as good explanations of
Nebel, Jonathan
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VAN FRAASSEN Y LA CONCEPCIÓN ESTRUCTURALISTA DE LAS TEORÍAS
Praxis Filosófica, 2011 El escrito hace un estudio comparativo, de carácter general, entre las dosversiones más representativas del enfoque semántico de las teorías, laestructuralista y la de van Fraassen, presentando los principales aspectosen los que están de acuerdo y en los
Germán Guerrero Pino
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The Epistemology of “Epistemology Naturalized” [PDF]
, 1999 Quine's “Epistemology Naturalized” has become part of the canon in epistemology and excited a widespread revival of interest in naturalism. Yet the status accorded the essay is ironic, since both friends and foes of philosophical naturalism deny that ...
Roth, Paul
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Representation and Perspective in Science
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2007 The world science describes tends to have a very strange look. We can’t see atoms or force fields, nor are they imaginable within visualizable categories, so neither can we even imagine what the world must be like according to recent physical theories ...
Bas C. van Fraassen
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