The Empirical Stance 1st Edition by Bas C Van Fraassen ISBN 0300127960 9780300127966

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ISBN 10: 0300127960 

ISBN 13: 9780300127966

Author: Bas C. Van Fraassen

What is empiricism and what could it be? Bas C. van Fraassen, one of the world’s 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.

Table of contents:

Lecture 1. Against Analytic Metaphysics
Lecture 2. What Is Empiricism and What Could It Be?
Lecture 3. Scientific Revolution/Conversion as a Philosophical Problem
Lecture 4. Experience: (Epistemic) Life Without Foundations
Lecture 5. What Is Science—and What Is It to Be Secular?

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