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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.


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  • Author : Bas C. van Fraassen
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Genre : Philosophy
  • Total Pages : 302 pages
  • ISBN : 0300127960
  • PDF File Size : 22,8 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 5/5 from 1 reviews

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The Empirical Stance

The Empirical Stance
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
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  • Release Date : 01 October 2008
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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

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Quantum Mechanics
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
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  • Release Date : 14 June 1991
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The author argues that quantum theory admits a plurality of interpretations, each aiding further understanding of the theory, but also advocating specifically the Copenhagen Variant of the Modal Interpretation. That

Scientific Representation

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This Element presents a philosophical exploration of the notion of scientific representation. It does so by focussing on an important class of scientific representations, namely scientific models. Models are important

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  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
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  • Release Date : 11 December 1980
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In this book van Fraassen develops an alternative to scientific realism by constructing and evaluating three mutually reinforcing theories.

Laws and Symmetry

Laws and Symmetry
  • Publisher : Clarendon Press
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  • Release Date : 02 November 1989
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Images of Empiricism
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
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Thirteen specially written essays discuss topics from the work of the leading philosopher of science Bas van Fraassen. The unifying theme is empiricism. Included is an extensive and intriguing reply

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  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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  • Release Date : 15 October 1985
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"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

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  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
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  • Release Date : 02 May 2013
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"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

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  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
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  • Release Date : 28 February 1997
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