03254nam 22006254a 450 991077785630332120230607221955.01-281-72986-897866117298680-300-12796-010.12987/9780300127966(CKB)1000000000471913(StDuBDS)AH23049461(SSID)ssj0000146239(PQKBManifestationID)11164957(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000146239(PQKBWorkID)10185509(PQKB)11475203(OCoLC)648180095(MiAaPQ)EBC3420009(DE-B1597)485616(OCoLC)952732338(DE-B1597)9780300127966(Au-PeEL)EBL3420009(CaPaEBR)ebr10170035(CaONFJC)MIL172986(OCoLC)923589869(EXLCZ)99100000000047191320010823d2002 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe empirical stance[electronic resource] /Bas C. van FraassenNew Haven, CT Yale University Pressc20021 online resource (304 p.)The Terry lecturesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-08874-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-273) and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --Introduction --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? --Appendix A. Scientific Cosmology --Appendix B. A History of the Name ''Empiricism'' --Appendix C. Bultmann's Theology Is Not a Philosophy --Notes --Bibliography --IndexWhat 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.Terry lectures.EmpiricismEmpiricism.146/.44Van Fraassen Bas C.1941-51062MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777856303321The empirical stance3845554UNINA