The Empirical Stance - Hardcover

Van Fraassen, Bas C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300088744 ISBN 13: 9780300088748

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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.

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The Terry Lectures Series

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"Van Fraassen, the most influential empiricist of recent decades, combines a penetrating discussion of empiricism in science and philosophy with a sympathetic discussion of religion. . . . [An] eloquent examination of empiricism and religion."--Paul Thagard, Science; "An ambitious, absorbing, iconoclastic, metaphilosophical treatise."-Richard Rorty, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews; "This work argues powerfully for a radical redirection of much contemporary thinking in epistemology and other important topics. It should force all of us to rethink the nature of analytic philosophy."--Paul Teller, author of An Interpretive Introduction to Quantum Field Theory

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0300088744
• ISBN 13: 9780300088748
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288