• In philosophy of science, constructive empiricism is a form of empiricism. While it is sometimes referred to as an empiricist form of structuralism, its...
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    Abstract empiricism – 1959 book by C. Wright MillsPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Constructive empiricism – Form of empiricism in philosophy...
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    human knowledge is active and constructive Constructionism (disambiguation) Constructive theology Constructive empiricism Deconstructivism, a movement...
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  • refer to them. The notion of observability plays a central role in constructive empiricism. According to Bas van Fraassen, the goal of scientific theories...
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  • be things that should be ignored. Close to instrumentalism is constructive empiricism, according to which the main criterion for the success of a scientific...
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  • Mathematics Jukka Keranen at UCLA. Van Fraassen coined the term "constructive empiricism" in his 1980 book The Scientific Image, in which he argued for...
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    strictly limited utility. Bas van Fraassen's (1980) project of constructive empiricism focuses on belief in the domain of the observable, so for this...
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  • van Fraassen in his book The Scientific Image (1980) developed constructive empiricism as an alternative to realism. He argues against scientific realism...
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  • experimentally. Dirac's view is close to what Bas van Fraassen calls constructive empiricism. A physicist who took the issues involved seriously was Pierre...
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  • Logical positivism, also known as logical empiricism or neo-positivism, was a philosophical movement, in the empiricist tradition, that sought to formulate...
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  • ignorance. "Modal Fictionalism," Mind 99 (1990): 327-354. "What is Constructive Empiricism?" Philosophical Studies 74 (1994): 143-178. "Modal Fictionalism...
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  • Versus Constructive Empiricism, ed. Churchland and Hooker (1984). "The Logician's Dilemma: Deductive Logic, Inductive Inference and Logical Empiricism," Erkenntnis...
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    and independent Theories Coherentism Confirmation holism Constructive empiricism Constructive realism Constructivist epistemology Contextualism Conventionalism...
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  • structure" status to the spacetime structure, sometimes via its metric. Constructive empiricism, a rival yet related view Semantic view of theories, a view often...
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  • what he calls the "third dogma of empiricism". The term is a reference to the famous 1951 essay Two Dogmas of Empiricism by his graduate teacher, W. V. O...
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  • Press. —— (1985). Images of Science: Scientific Realism versus Constructive Empiricism. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. —— (1989). A Neurocomputational...
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  • cited in support of various philosophies, including perspectivism, constructive empiricism and agential realism. Gleason's theorem finds application in quantum...
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  • Buffalo Bas van Fraassen – philosopher of science, developer of constructive empiricism Kristopher Wells – scholar of gender and sexuality at MacEwan University...
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    essentially Werner Leinfellner's accomplishment that the ideal of logical empiricism in the 1930s and 1940s, to create a "unified science", was replaced by...
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  • sciences, as" he'd already explained in length [emphasis added]. Constructive empiricism Constructivism Contextualism Integral theory Integral (spirituality)...
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  • structuralism, embodied mind theories (Aristotelian realism, psychologism, empiricism), fictionalism, social constructivism, and non-traditional schools. However...
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  • philosophical belief that the way to truth is through experiments and empiricism. It is also associated with instrumentalism, the belief that truth should...
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    during the scientific revolution. Empiricism and rationalism differ concerning the type of method they advocate. Empiricism focuses on sensory experience...
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  • about the active constructive nature of human knowledge. In particular, the critique is aimed at the "associationist" postulate of empiricism, "by which the...
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    ISBN 9780521041119. OCLC 231660530. Neurath, Otto (1973) [1921]. "Anti-Spengler". Empiricism and Sociology. Vienna Circle Collection. Vol. 1. Dordrecht: D. Reidel...
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    following the line of Ernst Mach. Historians of the Vienna Circle of logical empiricism recognize a "first phase" from 1907 through 1914 with Philipp Frank, Hans...
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    much examination of current and historical mathematical practice, quasi-empiricism in mathematics, and so-called folk mathematics, oral traditions in the...
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    James recall, it was Wright who demanded a phenomenalist and fallibilist empiricism as an alternative to rationalistic speculation." Peirce developed the...
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    (dualism). Rāmānuja's epistemology is hyperrealistic or similar to naïve empiricism. The first two sources of knowledge are perception and inference, and...
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    commitment, "To be is to be the value of a variable", and "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" (1951), which attacked the traditional analytic-synthetic distinction...
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