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The Empirical Stance

By Bas C. van Fraassen

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0300088744, 9780300088748
Open Library ID
OL9674977M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11720802 bytes)
Pages
152\152
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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.

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