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Author / Creator:	Van Fraassen, Bas C., 1941- author.
Imprint:	New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 282 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	The Terry lectures Terry lectures.
Subject:	Empiricism. Empiricism. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11156972

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ISBN:	9780300127966 0300127960 0300088744 9780300088748 1281729868 9781281729866 9786611729868 6611729860
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-273) and index. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Van Fraassen, Bas C., 1941- Empirical stance. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©2002 0300088744 9780300088748

Table of Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Lecture 1. Against Analytic Metaphysics""; ""Lecture 2. What Is Empiricism and What Could It Be?""; ""One. In Search of a Tradition""; ""Two. Critique: What Empiricism Cannot Be""; ""Three. What Empiricism Could Be: Philosophical Stances""; ""Four. Example of a Stance Misunderstood: Materialism""; ""Five. What Could Philosophy Be, Then?""; ""Lecture 3. Scientific Revolution/Conversion as a Philosophical Problem""; ""One. The Problem: Our Rejected/Celebrated Past""; ""Two. Frameworks for Solution""; ""Three. The Impasse: Enter Emotion""
""Lecture 4. Experience: (Epistemic) Life Without Foundations""""One. After the Epistemological Impasse: Interpreting the Past""; ""Two. Experience: Empiricist Fundamentalism and the Open Future""; ""Three. Tolerating Ambiguity: The Inexhaustible, Unfathomable Historical Self""; ""Lecture 5. What Is Scienceâ€?and What Is It to Be Secular?""; ""One. What is Science?""; ""Two. So What is it to be Secular?""; ""Appendix A. Scientific Cosmology""; ""Appendix B.A History of the Name ""Empiricism""""; ""Appendix C. Bultmannâ€?s Theology Is Not a Philosophy""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

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