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Bas van Fraassen: The Self, From a Logical Point of View
Bas van Fraassen: The Self, From a Logical Point of View
ABSTRACT Our sense of self is readily extrapolated to engender paradoxes, but that sense is not easily dismissed even when the logical aporiai are exposed. What Kant called the illusions of reason beckon here, but their false promises may be shown up if we subject the possibility of ‘objective’ scientific accounts of ourselves to a […]
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Bas van Fraassen: The Semantic Approach to Science, After 50 Years
Bas van Fraassen: The Semantic Approach to Science, After 50 Years
ABSTRACT The 1960s saw many revolutions, worldwide, and some of that epoch’s revolutionary spirit manifested itself in philosophy of science, with strong reactions against the dominant ‘received view’ of Logical Positivism. Scientific realism emerged to dispute ontology, Kuhn single-handedly turned our eyes back to history of science, and the semantic approach replaced the methodological framework […]