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/9780199218844.003.0009

Ernan McMullin
Abstract: This chapter begins by considering the role of emotion in scientific revolutions. It argues that one can undergo a scientific revolution without ever facing an existentialist moment where emotion is essentially involved. It then takes up van Fraassen's discussion of religion from the final chapter of The Empirical Stance. It proposes that such a discussion of emotion in conceptual shifts is relevant to van Fraassen's ideas about encountering God.

Keywords: emotion, scientific revolutions, Bas van Fraassen, This Empirical Stance, religion,

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Part I The Scientific Image
Part II The Empirical Stance
Part III Van Fraassen's Reply