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Should scientists believe everything they say? Or would a more cautious attitude be preferable? On the one hand, the undisputed success of our contemporary scientific theories gives us good reasons to suppose that they are largely true; yet on the other hand, the undisputed failure of our past scientific theories give us cause for anxiety. Constructive empiricism - a view first formulated by the iconoclastic philosopher Bas van Fraassen - offers an answer to this question: scientists should believe what they say, insofar as they are talking about the observable phenomena. But constructive empiricism is not just a view regarding the aim of science; it is also a view regarding the epistemological framework in which such a debate is to be conducted. It is this meta-philosophical issue that is the focus of this book - not with scientific truth, but with how one should argue about scientific truth.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

• Full title: Constructive Empiricism
• Subtitle: Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science
• Author: Paul Dicken
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 237
• EAN: 9780230247536
• ISBN: 0230247539
• ID: 04553056
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 392 g
• Dimensions: 225 × 146 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. July 2010

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