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5Reply to the Conference ParticipantsIn Claus Beisbart & Michael Frauchiger (eds.), Scientific Theories and Philosophical Stances: Themes from van Fraassen, De Gruyter. pp. 207-232. 2024.
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15The Semantic Approach, After 50 YearsIn Claus Beisbart & Michael Frauchiger (eds.), Scientific Theories and Philosophical Stances: Themes from van Fraassen, De Gruyter. pp. 23-86. 2024.
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16II—Bas C. van Fraassen: Structuralism(s) about Science: Some Common ProblemsAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 81 (1): 45-61. 2007.
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128Armstrong, Cartwright, and Earman on Laws and SymmetryPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (2): 431--44. 1993.
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4Rescher on Explanation and PredictionIn Robert Almeder (ed.), Rescher Studies: A Collection of Essays on the Philosophical Work of Nicholas Rescher, De Gruyter. pp. 339-362. 2008.
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432Scientific representation: A long journey from pragmatics to pragmatics Content Type Journal Article DOI 10.1007/s11016-010-9465-5 Authors James Ladyman, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, 9 Woodland Rd, Bristol, BS8 1TB UK Otávio Bueno, Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA Mauricio Suárez, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain Bas C. van Fraassen, Philosophy Department, San Francis…Read more
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271A Defence of Van Fraassen’s Critique of Abductive Inference: Reply to PsillosPhilosophical Quarterly 47 (188). 1997.Psillos has recently argued that van Fraassen’s arguments against abduction fail. Moreover, he claimed that, if successful, these arguments would equally undermine van Fraassen’s own constructive empiricism, for, Psillos thinks, it is only by appeal to abduction that constructive empiricism can be saved from issuing in a bald scepticism. We show that Psillos’ criticisms are misguided, and that they are mostly based on misinterpretations of van Fraassen’s arguments. Furthermore, we argue that Psi…Read more
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45A Defence of van Fraassen’s Critique of Abductive Inference: Reply to PsillosPhilosophical Quarterly 47 (188): 305-321. 1997.
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41Transcendence of the Ego (The Non-Existent Knight)Ratio 17 (4): 453-477. 2004.I exist, but I am not a thing among things; X exists if and only if there is something such that it=X. This is consistent, and it is a view that can be supported. Calvino’s novel The Non‐Existent Knight can be read so as to illustrate this view. But what is my relation to the things there are if I am not identical with any of them – things such as my arms, my garden, the city I live in? I name this the Gurduloo problem, after the Knight’s page. This relation must be one that admits of degrees; I…Read more
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74Rational Belief and Probability KinematicsPhilosophy of Science 47 (2): 165-187. 1980.A general form is proposed for epistemological theories, the relevant factors being: the family of epistemic judgments, the epistemic state, the epistemic commitment, and the family of possible epistemic inputs. First a simple theory is examined in which the states are probability functions, and the subject of probability kinematics introduced by Richard Jeffrey is explored. Then a second theory is examined in which the state has as constituents a body of information and a recipe that determines…Read more
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90Precis of Scientific representation: paradoxes of perspective (review)Philosophical Studies 150 (3). 2010.
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20Frequency and the myth of probabilityIn Ulrich Dirks & Hans Poser (eds.), Hans Reichenbach, Philosophie Im Umkreis der Physik, De Gruyter. pp. 55-68. 1998.
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1BOOK REVIEW: Interpreting the Quantum World by Jeffrey Bub (review)Foundations of Physics 28 (4): 683-689. 1998.
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10Über die Erweiterung der Beth-Semantik für physikalische TheorienIn Michael Heidelberger & Wolfgang Balzer (eds.), Zur Logik Empirischer Theorien, De Gruyter. pp. 97-116. 1983.
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Arguments concerning scientific realism"In Jeffrey Foss (ed.), Science and the World: Philosophical Approaches, Broadview Press. 2013.
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Arguments concerning scientific realism"In Jeffrey Foss (ed.), Science and the World: Philosophical Approaches, Broadview Press. 2013.
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94Reflection and conditionalization: Comments on Michael RescorlaNoûs 57 (3): 539-552. 2023.Rescorla explores the relation between Reflection, Conditionalization, and Dutch book arguments in the presence of a weakened concept of sure loss and weakened conditions of self‐transparency for doxastic agents. The literature about Reflection and about Dutch Book arguments, though overlapping, are distinct, and its history illuminates the import of Rescorla's investigation. With examples from a previous debate in the 70s and results about Reflection and Conditionalization in the 80s, I propose…Read more
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28A Landscape of Logics beyond the Deduction TheoremPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology 26 (1): 25-38. 2022.Philosophical issues often turn into logic. That is certainly true of Moore’s Paradox, which tends to appear and reappear in many philosophical contexts. There is no doubt that its study belongs to pragmatics rather than semantics or syntax. But it is also true that issues in pragmatics can often be studied fruitfully by attending to their projection, so to speak, onto the levels of semantics or syntax — just in the way that problems in spherical geometry are often illuminated by the study of pr…Read more
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169Time in physical and narrative structureIn John B. Bender & David E. Wellbery (eds.), Chronotypes: The Construction of Time, Stanford University Press. pp. 19-37. 1991.When the reader turns to a text, he conceives of the narrated events as ordered in time. When the natural philosopher turns to the world, he also conceives of its events as ordered in time—or lately, in space-time. But each has the task of constituting this order on the basis of clues present in what is to be ordered. Interrogating the parallels to be found in their problems and methods, I shall argue that in both cases the definiteness of the relation between the order and what is ordered resid…Read more
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