Taking an Empirical Stance
Taking an Empirical Stance
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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