In philosophy of science, constructive empiricism is a form of empiricism. While it is sometimes referred to as an empiricist form of structuralism, its...
4 KB (410 words) - 21:39, 2 June 2025
Abstract empiricism – 1959 book by C. Wright MillsPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Constructive empiricism – Form of empiricism in philosophy...
53 KB (6,678 words) - 22:23, 21 June 2025
Constructivism (redirect from Constructive)
human knowledge is active and constructive Constructionism (disambiguation) Constructive theology Constructive empiricism Deconstructivism, a movement...
3 KB (329 words) - 20:51, 20 February 2025
refer to them. The notion of observability plays a central role in constructive empiricism. According to Bas van Fraassen, the goal of scientific theories...
7 KB (760 words) - 13:26, 19 May 2025
be things that should be ignored. Close to instrumentalism is constructive empiricism, according to which the main criterion for the success of a scientific...
154 KB (15,371 words) - 16:32, 23 June 2025
Mathematics Jukka Keranen at UCLA. Van Fraassen coined the term "constructive empiricism" in his 1980 book The Scientific Image, in which he argued for...
15 KB (1,450 words) - 19:52, 27 May 2025
Instrumentalism (category Empiricism)
strictly limited utility. Bas van Fraassen's (1980) project of constructive empiricism focuses on belief in the domain of the observable, so for this...
24 KB (3,171 words) - 23:16, 24 October 2023
van Fraassen in his book The Scientific Image (1980) developed constructive empiricism as an alternative to realism. He argues against scientific realism...
19 KB (2,260 words) - 08:48, 8 June 2025
experimentally. Dirac's view is close to what Bas van Fraassen calls constructive empiricism. A physicist who took the issues involved seriously was Pierre...
10 KB (1,258 words) - 14:17, 19 December 2023
Logical positivism (redirect from Logical empiricism)
Logical positivism, also known as logical empiricism or neo-positivism, was a philosophical movement, in the empiricist tradition, that sought to formulate...
63 KB (6,900 words) - 19:56, 19 June 2025
ignorance. "Modal Fictionalism," Mind 99 (1990): 327-354. "What is Constructive Empiricism?" Philosophical Studies 74 (1994): 143-178. "Modal Fictionalism...
4 KB (392 words) - 01:46, 27 May 2025
Versus Constructive Empiricism, ed. Churchland and Hooker (1984). "The Logician's Dilemma: Deductive Logic, Inductive Inference and Logical Empiricism," Erkenntnis...
18 KB (1,493 words) - 23:56, 3 June 2025
and independent Theories Coherentism Confirmation holism Constructive empiricism Constructive realism Constructivist epistemology Contextualism Conventionalism...
26 KB (3,250 words) - 10:39, 30 March 2025
structure" status to the spacetime structure, sometimes via its metric. Constructive empiricism, a rival yet related view Semantic view of theories, a view often...
21 KB (2,545 words) - 11:23, 12 June 2025
Donald Davidson (philosopher) (redirect from The Third Dogma of Empiricism)
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...
25 KB (2,840 words) - 19:33, 11 June 2025
Press. —— (1985). Images of Science: Scientific Realism versus Constructive Empiricism. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. —— (1989). A Neurocomputational...
24 KB (2,325 words) - 16:13, 11 May 2025
cited in support of various philosophies, including perspectivism, constructive empiricism and agential realism. Gleason's theorem finds application in quantum...
33 KB (4,107 words) - 02:27, 24 June 2025
Buffalo Bas van Fraassen – philosopher of science, developer of constructive empiricism Kristopher Wells – scholar of gender and sexuality at MacEwan University...
30 KB (2,998 words) - 04:48, 19 June 2025
essentially Werner Leinfellner's accomplishment that the ideal of logical empiricism in the 1930s and 1940s, to create a "unified science", was replaced by...
20 KB (2,218 words) - 04:04, 23 June 2025
sciences, as" he'd already explained in length [emphasis added]. Constructive empiricism Constructivism Contextualism Integral theory Integral (spirituality)...
35 KB (4,058 words) - 08:35, 31 March 2025
Philosophy of mathematics (redirect from Mathematical empiricism)
structuralism, embodied mind theories (Aristotelian realism, psychologism, empiricism), fictionalism, social constructivism, and non-traditional schools. However...
83 KB (10,555 words) - 20:05, 9 June 2025
philosophical belief that the way to truth is through experiments and empiricism. It is also associated with instrumentalism, the belief that truth should...
7 KB (836 words) - 15:10, 3 June 2025
History of philosophy (section Empiricism)
during the scientific revolution. Empiricism and rationalism differ concerning the type of method they advocate. Empiricism focuses on sensory experience...
192 KB (20,211 words) - 13:57, 21 June 2025
about the active constructive nature of human knowledge. In particular, the critique is aimed at the "associationist" postulate of empiricism, "by which the...
15 KB (1,476 words) - 21:38, 8 May 2025
ISBN 9780521041119. OCLC 231660530. Neurath, Otto (1973) [1921]. "Anti-Spengler". Empiricism and Sociology. Vienna Circle Collection. Vol. 1. Dordrecht: D. Reidel...
10 KB (1,271 words) - 23:44, 22 May 2025
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...
20 KB (2,356 words) - 10:30, 13 April 2025
much examination of current and historical mathematical practice, quasi-empiricism in mathematics, and so-called folk mathematics, oral traditions in the...
34 KB (4,229 words) - 11:05, 26 May 2025
James recall, it was Wright who demanded a phenomenalist and fallibilist empiricism as an alternative to rationalistic speculation." Peirce developed the...
89 KB (10,250 words) - 09:10, 23 June 2025
(dualism). Rāmānuja's epistemology is hyperrealistic or similar to naïve empiricism. The first two sources of knowledge are perception and inference, and...
61 KB (6,557 words) - 01:52, 21 June 2025
commitment, "To be is to be the value of a variable", and "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" (1951), which attacked the traditional analytic-synthetic distinction...
55 KB (6,469 words) - 18:03, 23 June 2025