Constructive Empiricism
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Constructive Empiricism
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Author : P. Dicken
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-07-16
Constructive Empiricism written by P. Dicken and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-16 with Science categories.
Constructive empiricism is not just a view regarding the aim of science; it is also a view regarding the epistemological framework in which one should debate the aim of science. This is the focus of this book – not with scientific truth, but with how one should argue about scientific truth.
Images Of Empiricism
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Author : Bradley Monton
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2007-10-04
Images Of Empiricism written by Bradley Monton and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-04 with Philosophy categories.
Thirteen specially written essays discuss topics from the work of Bas C. van Fraassen, one of the most important contemporary philosophers of science. The central and unifying theme of the volume is empiricism, an approach which van Fraassen developed most fully in The Scientific Image and The Empirical Stance. Thirteen of the world's leading experts in the field examine van Fraassen's defence of scientific anti-realism (which he sees as a core tenet of empiricism), as well as his claim that adopting a philosophical position like empiricism does not consist in holding a particular set of beliefs, but is rather a matter of taking a stance. Images of Empiricism concludes with an extensive and intriguing reply by van Fraassen, in which he develops and corrects his old views, and offers new insights into the nature of science, empiricism, and philosophy itself.
From Instrumentalism To Constructive Realism
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Author : Theo A.F. Kuipers
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-04-18
From Instrumentalism To Constructive Realism written by Theo A.F. Kuipers and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-18 with Science categories.
Surprisingly, modified versions of the confirmation theory (Carnap and Hempel) and truth approximation theory (Popper) turn out to be smoothly sythesizable. The glue between the two appears to be the instrumentalist methodology, rather than that of the falsificationalist. The instrumentalist methodology, used in the separate, comparative evaluation of theories in terms of their successes and problems (hence, even if already falsified), provides in theory and practice the straight road to short-term empirical progress in science ( à la Laudan). It is also argued that such progress is also functional for all kinds of truth approximation: observational, referential, and theoretical. This sheds new light on the long-term dynamics of science and hence on the relation between the main epistemological positions, viz., instrumentalism (Toulmin, Laudan), constructive empiricism (Van Fraassen), referential realism (Hacking, Cartwright), and theory realism of a non-essentialist nature (constructive realism à la Popper). Readership: Open minded philosophers and scientists. The book explains and justifies the scientist's intuition that the debate among philosophers about instrumentalism and realism has almost no practical consequences.
Bas Van Fraassen
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Author : Andreas Berg-Hildebrand
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-05-02
Bas Van Fraassen written by Andreas Berg-Hildebrand and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with Philosophy categories.
"Participation in the Münstersche Vorlesungen zur Philosophie 2005 was an honor and a genuine intellectual pleasure for me. The symposium, with all its contributions by the Münster faculty and students, was a wonderfully valuable experience. I can hardly do justice to its spirit of free discussion, or adequately express my thanks, by these short replies. But I think that they will testify clearly to the stimulation the symposium provided and to how much I learned from this exchange." Bas van Fraassen
A Defence Of Constructive Empiricism
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Author : Paul Edward Trueman Dicken
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
A Defence Of Constructive Empiricism written by Paul Edward Trueman Dicken and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
The Relation Between Scientific Realism And Constructive Empiricism
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Author : Photios Zygoulis
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The Relation Between Scientific Realism And Constructive Empiricism written by Photios Zygoulis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Philosophy - Theoretical (Realisation, Science, Logic, Language), grade: -, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (History and Philosophy of Science Department), language: Modern Greek, abstract: u u u u, u u u u . u u u u u, u u . u u u u u .1 u u u u u u ( u van Fraassen u u u ). [...]
Constructive Empiricism
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Author : Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Constructive Empiricism written by Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Belief and doubt categories.
Images Of Science
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Author : Bas C. Van Fraassen
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1985-10-15
Images Of Science written by Bas C. Van Fraassen and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-10-15 with Science categories.
"Churchland and Hooker have collected ten papers by prominent philosophers of science which challenge van Fraassen's thesis from a variety of realist perspectives. Together with van Fraassen's extensive reply . . . these articles provide a comprehensive picture of the current debate in philosophy of science between realists and anti-realists."—Jeffrey Bub and David MacCallum, Foundations of Physics Letters
The Empirical Stance
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Author : Bas C. van Fraassen
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-01
The Empirical Stance written by Bas C. van Fraassen and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Philosophy categories.
What is empiricism and what could it be? Bas C. van Fraassen, one of the world’s foremost contributors to philosophical logic and the philosophy of science, here undertakes a fresh consideration of these questions and offers a program for renewal of the empiricist tradition. The empiricist tradition is not and could not be defined by common doctrines, but embodies a certain stance in philosophy, van Fraassen says. This stance is displayed first of all in a searing, recurrent critique of metaphysics, and second in a focus on experience that requires a voluntarist view of belief and opinion. Van Fraassen focuses on the philosophical problems of scientific and conceptual revolutions and on the not unrelated ruptures between religious and secular ways of seeing or conceiving of ourselves. He explores what it is to be or not be secular and points the way toward a new relationship between secularism and science within philosophy.
Constructive Empiricism And The Coherence Theory Of Truth
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Author : Bruce J. Stark
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Constructive Empiricism And The Coherence Theory Of Truth written by Bruce J. Stark and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Empiricism categories.