• 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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  • 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...
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  • Constructivism (redirect from Constructive)
    human knowledge is active and constructive Constructionism (disambiguation) Constructive theology Constructive empiricism Deconstructivism, a movement...
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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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  • refer to them. The notion of observability plays a central role in constructive empiricism. According to van Fraassen, the goal of scientific theories is...
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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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  • something 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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  • Logical positivism, later called logical empiricism, and both of which together are also known as neopositivism, is a movement whose central thesis is...
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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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  • Constantin Noica Construct (philosophy of science) Constructive empiricism Constructive realism Contextual empiricism Conventionalism Copernican Revolution (metaphor)...
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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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  • 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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  • (philosophy of science) Constructible universe Constructive dilemma Constructive empiricism Constructive realism Constructivism (art) Constructivism (mathematics)...
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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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  • Press. —— (1985). Images of Science: Scientific Realism versus Constructive Empiricism. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. —— (1989). A Neurocomputational...
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  • while relatively reliable, it is still limited by what can be measured by empiricism which may not be as reliable as previously assumed (see also: 'counterintuitive'...
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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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    of the scientific revolution. Empiricism and rationalism differ concerning the type of method they promote. Empiricism focuses on sensory experience....
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  • perspective regarding the problem of the foundations of mathematics. Quasi-empiricism in mathematics Borovik, Alexandre (November 2006). Mathematics Under the...
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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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    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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  • Wolff is defined "the greatest of all dogmatic philosophers." British empiricism marked something of a reaction to rationalist and system-building metaphysics...
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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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    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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  • materialism rejected inference as a source of knowledge in favour of an empiricism that was always subject to doubt. Aristotle pioneered scientific method...
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    comparative religion, the psychology of religious experience and the nature of empiricism. James was influential in the founding of the American Society for Psychical...
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    Militant Deism". Varieties of Transcendental Experience: A Study in Constructive Postmodernism. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock. pp. 47–48. ISBN 9781725220294...
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    is to classify truths, not to certify them". In contrast, the logical empiricism movement, which included such philosophers as Moritz Schlick, Rudolf Carnap...
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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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