Images of Empiricism
Essays on Science and Stances, with a Reply from Bas C. van Fraassen
Monton, Bradley University of Colorado at Boulder
Print publication date: 2007 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921884-4
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199218844.003.0015
 

Bas C. van Fraassen
This chapter presents Bas van Fraassen's responses to the critique of his works. He mentions the ways he has changed his mind in the years since The Scientific Image. He highlights two themes as especially important. The first is the role of values in epistemology. The second is the turn in the empiricist tradition, which leaves many ‘central’ problems of traditional epistemology behind.
Keywords: Bas van Fraassen, empiricism, science, stances, epistemology, empiricist tradition
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199218844.003.0015
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Part I The Scientific Image
Part II The Empirical Stance
Part III Van Fraassen's Reply