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| ISBN: | 9780300127966
0300127960
0300088744
9780300088748
1281729868
9781281729866
9786611729868
6611729860
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-273) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | What is empiricism and what could it be? Bas C. van Fraassen, one of the worlds 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.Van Fraassen focuses on the philosophical problems of scientific and conceptual revolutions and on the not unrelated ruptures between religious and secular ways of seeing or conceiving of ourselves. He explores what it is to be or not be secular and points the way toward a new relationship between secularism and science within philosophy.
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| Other form: | Print version: Van Fraassen, Bas C., 1941- Empirical stance. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©2002 0300088744 9780300088748
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