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Empiricism for cyborgs
Scientific realism Constructive empiricism Instruments Microscopes Extended mind thesis Bas van Fraassen Andy Clark
2016/6/15
One important debate between scientific realists and constructive empiricists concerns whether we observe things using instruments. This paper offers a new perspective on the debate over instruments b...
Collision of Traditions.The Emergence of Logical Empiricism Between the Riemannian and Helmholtzian Traditions
Bernhard Riemann Hermann von Helmholtz Logical Empiricis Philosophical Interpretations of the Theory of Relativity Epistemology of Geometry
2016/6/13
This paper attempts to explain the emergence of the logical empiricist philosophy of space and time as a collision of mathematical traditions.The historical development of the ``Riemannian'' and ``Hel...
Amending and Defending Critical Contextual Empiricism: Lessons from Medical Research
Critical Contextual Empiricism Medical Research Helen Longino
2009/9/11
In Science as Social Knowledge (1990) and The Fate of Knowledge (2002), Helen Longino develops a social epistemological theory known as Critical Contextual Empiricism (CCE). While Longino’s work has b...
Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, and Aim-Oriented Empiricism
Scientific rationality Popper Kuhn Lakatos
2008/4/22
In this paper I argue that aim-oriented empiricism (AOE), a conception of natural science that I have defended at some length elsewhere, is a kind of synthesis of the views of Popper, Kuhn and Lakatos...
Thought experiments are ordinary argumentation disguised in a vivid pictorial or narrative form. This account of their nature will allow me to show that empiricism has nothing to fear from thought exp...
In Defence of Constructive Empiricism: Metaphpysics versus Science
constructive empiricism metaphysical realism
2008/4/14
A defence of constructive empiricism against an attack of N. Maxwell by means of his pet-thesis that science implicitly and permanently accepts a metaphysical thesis about the nature of the universe. ...
High Energy Physics and Constructive Empiricism
elementary particle physics constructive empiricism
2008/4/14
Progress in elementary particle physics in recent decades has changed the status of the visible phenomena in the context of scientific research. Empiricist positions in philosophy of science, which pu...
Constructive Empiricism, Observability and Three Kinds of Ontological Commitment
constructive empiricism observability onotological commitment
2008/4/10
In this paper, I argue against constructive empiricism that, as far as science is concerned, observability is not an adequate criterion as a guidance of cautious ontological commitment. My argument is...
Carnap’s Logical Empiricism, Values, and American Pragmatism
Carnap Logical Empiricism American Progmatism
2008/4/10
Value judgments are meaningless. This thesis was one of the notorious tenets of Carnap’s mature logical empiricism. Less well known is the fact that in the Aufbau values were con-sidered as philosophi...
Can Constructive Empiricism Adopt the Concept of Observabililty?
constructive empiricism observability
2008/4/10
Several arguments (due to Friedman, Kukla, Foss, Musgrave and Creath) to the effect that the distinction between observables and unobservables cannot be drawn coherently within the confines of Constru...
For three decades I have expounded and defended aim-oriented empiricism, a view of science which, l claim, solves a number of problems in the philosophy of science and has important implications for s...
A Case for Old-Fashioned Observability, and a Reconstructed Constructive Empiricism
observability observation constructive empiricism
2008/4/9
I develop a concept of observability that pertains to qualities rather than objects: a quality is observable if it can be registered by human sensation (possibly with the aid of instruments) without i...
Originally published in The Philosophical Review 60 (1951): 20-43.
Reprinted in W.V.O. Quine, From a Logical Point of View (Harvard University
Press, 1953; second, revised, edition 1961), with the f...
In this paper I argue that aim-oriented empiricism (AOE),
a conception of natural science that I have defended at some
length elsewhere, is a kind of synthesis of the views of
Popper, Kuhn and Laka...
The Mind-Body Problem in the Origin of Logical Empiricism: Herbert Feigl and Psychophysical Parallelism
mind-body problem philosophy of science philosophy of psychology
2008/3/31
It is widely held that the current debate on the mind-body problem in analytic philosophy began during the 1950s at two distinct sources: one in America, deriving from Herbert Feigl's writings, and th...