Images of empiricism
Subtitle: essays on science and stances, with a reply from Bas C. van Fraassen
By: [edited by] Bradley Monton
Contributors: Monton, Bradley John, 1972-
Series: Mind Association occasional series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780199218844
Subjects: Van Fraassen, Bas C., -- 1941-; Empiricism; Science -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The scientific image; title: Constructive empiricism and the argument from underdetermination / Maarten Van Dyck; title: Why be hanged for even a lamb? / Nancy Cartwright; title: The epistemology of constructive empiricism / James Ladyman; title: Underdetermination and evidence / Alexander Bird; title: An empiricist critique of constructive empiricism : the aim of science / Philip Percival; title: Accepting contradictions / Peter Lipton; title: Putting a bridle on irrationality : an appraisal of van Fraassen's new epistemology / Stathis Psillos; title: The empirical stance; title: Taking an empirical stance / Ernan McMullin; title: Six degrees of speculation : metaphysics in empirical contexts / Anjan Chakravartty; title: The dilemma of empiricist belief / Chad Mohler; title: Materialism, stances, and open-mindedness / Michel Bitbol; title: Must empiricism be a stance, and could it be one? how to be an empiricist and a philosopher at the same time / Anja Jauernig; title: Farewell to empiricism / Dien Ho; title: Van Fraassen's reply; title: From a view of science to a new empiricism / Bas C. van Fraassen