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Type: BOOK - Published: 1980-12-11 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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In this book van Fraassen develops an alternative to scientific realism by constructing and evaluating three mutually reinforcing theories.
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-13 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Naturalism as a guiding philosophy for modern science both disavows any appeal to the supernatural or anything else transcendent to nature, and repudiates any p
Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800-2010
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Vitalism is understood as impacting the history of the life sciences, medicine and philosophy, representing an epistemological challenge to the dominance of mec
Image and Reality
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Nineteenth-century chemists were faced with a particular problem: how to depict the atoms and molecules that are beyond the direct reach of our bodily senses. I
The Scientific Image
Language: en
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Authors: Bas C. Van Fraassen
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980-12-11 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The aim of The Scientific Image is to develop an empiricist alternative to both logical positivism and scientific realism. Against positivism, the author insist