The Empirical Stance
The Empirical Stance By Bas C. van Fraassen
2002 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0300088744 | PDF | 2 MB
2002 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0300088744 | PDF | 2 MB
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.