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Constructive Empiricism : Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science, PDF eBook

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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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