From manifest image to Musgrave's problem: some comments on van Fraassen's epistemology

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• Paul Dicken (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
• Thursday 08 February 2007, 16:30-18:00
• Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

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Constructive empiricism is an attempt to reconcile what Wilfred Sellars has called our manifest and scientific images of the world. As an epistemological project, it therefore consists of a delicate balancing act between believing too much, and believing too little, of our accepted scientific theories. In this paper, I try to steer a middle course between these two extremes, responding to challenges by both Peter Lipton and Alan Musgrave respectively. I conclude with some observations of what the constructive empiricist may learn from these considerations about the nature of belief.

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