The empirical stance [[electronic resource] /] / Bas C. van Fraassen

• Autore: Van Fraassen Bas C. <1941->
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, CT, : Yale University Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 146/.44
• Soggetto topico: Empiricism
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-273) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The empirical stance
• ISBN: 1-281-72986-8; 9786611729868; 0-300-12796-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820321703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Terry lectures.