The Empirical Stance
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: April 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780300088748
Subjects: Analytical & linguistic philosophy; Epistemology, theory of knowledge; Empiricism; Philosophy; Movements - General; Philosophy / Movements / General; General
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.