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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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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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, 2021 o breve artigo é uma réplica à resposta de Alessio Gava ao artigo “Van Fraassen e a inferência da melhor explicação”, publicado em Problemata (v. 7. n.
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Theory Comparison and Relevant Evidence
, 1983 1 online resource (PDF, page 27-42)Van Fraassen, Bas C.. (1983). Theory Comparison and Relevant Evidence.
Van Fraassen, Bas C.
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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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Kusch and van Fraassen on Microscopic Experience
REVISTA LATINOAMERICANA DE FILOSOFÍA, 2019 Martin Kusch has recently defended Bas van Fraassen’s controversial view on microscopes, according to which these devices are not “windows on an invisible world”, but rather “image generators”. Both authors also claim that, since in a microscopic detection it is not possible to empirically investigate the geometrical relations between all the elements ...
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Glymour on Evidence and Explanation
, 1983 1 online resource (PDF, page 165-176)Van Fraassen, Bas C.. (1983). Glymour on Evidence and Explanation.
Van Fraassen, Bas C.
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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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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: les lois et la symétrie
, 1997 Ghins Michel. Bas van Fraassen: les lois et la symétrie. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 95, n°4, 1997. pp.
Ghins, Michel
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