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The empirical stance /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Van Fraassen, Bas C., 1941- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©2002.
Colección:Terry lectures.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Lecture 1. Against Analytic Metaphysics
  • Lecture 2. What Is Empiricism and What Could It Be?
  • One. In Search of a Tradition
  • Two. Critique: What Empiricism Cannot Be
  • Three. What Empiricism Could Be: Philosophical Stances
  • Four. Example of a Stance Misunderstood: Materialism
  • Five. What Could Philosophy Be, Then?
  • Lecture 3. Scientific Revolution/Conversion as a Philosophical Problem
  • One. The Problem: Our Rejected/Celebrated Past
  • Two. Frameworks for Solution
  • Three. The Impasse: Enter Emotion
  • Lecture 4. Experience: (Epistemic) Life Without FoundationsOne. After the Epistemological Impasse: Interpreting the Past
  • Two. Experience: Empiricist Fundamentalism and the Open Future
  • Three. Tolerating Ambiguity: The Inexhaustible, Unfathomable Historical Self
  • Lecture 5. What Is Scienceâ€?and What Is It to Be Secular?
  • One. What is Science?
  • Two. So What is it to be Secular?
  • Appendix A. Scientific Cosmology
  • Appendix B.A History of the Name Empiricism
  • Appendix C. Bultmannâ€?s Theology Is Not a Philosophy
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index