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Epistemological Realism and Onto-Relations [PDF]
, 2014 The traditional concept of knowledge is a justified true belief. The bulk of contemporary epistemology has focused primarily on that task of justification. Truth seems to be a quite obvious criterion—does the belief in question correspond to reality?
Andrews, Max Lewis Edward
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Contrastive self-knowledge [PDF]
, 2014 In this paper, I draw on a recent account of perceptual knowledge according to which knowledge is contrastive. I extend the contrastive account of perceptual knowledge to yield a contrastive account of self-knowledge.
Sawyer, Sarah
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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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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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Philosophers and Scientists Are Social Epistemic Agents [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper, I reply to Markus Arnold’s comment and Amanda Bryant’s comment on my work “Can Kuhn’s Taxonomic Incommensurability be an Image of Science?” in Moti Mizrahi’s edited collection, The Kuhnian Image of Science: Time for a ...
Park, Seungbae
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The Good Samaritan and the Hygienic Cook: A Cautionary Tale About Linguistic Data [PDF]
, 2009 When developing formal theories of the meaning of language, it is appropriate to consider how apparent paradoxes and conundrums of language are best resolved. But if we base our analysis on a small sample of data then we may fail to take into account the
Fox, C
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Didactical physics laboratory from a kuhnian perspective [PDF]
Investigações em Ensino de Ciências, 2001 Current studies on didactical physics laboratory have been based in the use of the hypothetical-deductive method, proposing the development of the experimental activities as an investigation process, that reveals its popperian inspiration.
Carlos Eduardo Laburu +2 more
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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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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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Realismo Científico Empirista?
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 1997 In his influential criticism of scientific realism, Bas van Fraassen assumes that this doctrine is incompatible with empiricism, according to which the sole ultimate basis of knowledge is experience.
Sílvio Seno Chibeni
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