Images of Empiricism
Images of Empiricism

Author: Bradley Monton

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2007-10-04

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0191607665

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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.

Images of Science
Images of Science

Author: Bas C. Van Fraassen

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1985-10-15

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0226106543

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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 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

Images of Empiricism
Images of Empiricism

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Published: 2007

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9780191711732

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13 specially written essays discuss topics from the work of Bas 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'.

The Scientific Image
The Scientific Image

Author: Bas C. Van Fraassen

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1980-12-11

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780198244271

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In this book van Fraassen develops an alternative to scientific realism by constructing and evaluating three mutually reinforcing theories.

Constructive Empiricism
Constructive Empiricism

Author: P. Dicken

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-07-16

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0230281826

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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.

Bas van Fraassen
Bas van Fraassen

Author: Andreas Berg-Hildebrand

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 3110326221

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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 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

The Empirical Stance
The Empirical Stance

Author: Bas C. van Fraassen

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0300127960

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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.

Introducing Empiricism
Introducing Empiricism

Author: Dave Robinson

Publisher: Icon Books Ltd

Published: 2015-09-03

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 1785780174

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Our knowledge comes primarily from experience – what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems? The experimental breakthroughs in 17th-century science of Kepler, Galileo and Newton informed the great British empiricist tradition, which accepts a 'common-sense' view of the world – and yet concludes that all we can ever know are 'ideas'. In Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide, Dave Robinson - with the aid of Bill Mayblin's brilliant illustrations - outlines the arguments of Locke, Berkeley, Hume, J.S. Mill, Bertrand Russell and the last British empiricist, A.J. Ayer. They also explore criticisms of empiricism in the work of Kant, Wittgenstein, Karl Popper and others, providing a unique overview of this compelling area of philosophy.

Wilfrid Sellars: Fusing the Images
Wilfrid Sellars: Fusing the Images

Author: Jay F. Rosenberg

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2007-09-13

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0191568740

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Wilfrid Sellars was and remains one of the most prominent and important twentieth-century philosophers: his writings played a key role in shaping the philosophical agenda in the English-speaking world during the second half of the 20th century, and they remain an active focus of intense critical attention and lively discussion. Jay Rosenberg studied under Sellars in the early 1960s, was continuously engaged with his work for over forty years, and was widely regarded both as its foremost expositor and as one of Sellars' truest disciples. This was the last book that Rosenberg completed before his death at the age of only sixty-five. In it he gathers previously published studies of the central elements and implications of Sellars' philosophy, along with three new essays that further highlight and articulate the significance of his work, both historically and with respect to contemporary debates.