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Title: The Empirical Stance

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Paperback, 2004

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Series:             Terry Lectures Series
Language:        English

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Length:        282 Pages
Weight:        1 Pounds
Height:         8.8 Inches
Width:          6 Inches
Thickness:    1 Inches



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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 offes a program for renewal of the empiricist tradition. the empiricists 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. Van Fraassen focuses on the philosophical problems of scientific and conceptual revolutions and on the not unrelated ruptures between religious and secular ways of seeing or conceiving of ourselves. He explores what it is to be or not be secular and points the way toward a new relationship between secularism and science within philosophy.



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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is The Empirical Stance and it was written by Bas C. Van Fraassen. This edition of The Empirical Stance is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is April 2002 and it has a suggested retail price of $42. There are 282 pages in the book and it was published by Yale Univ Pr. The 10 digit ISBN is 0300088744 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780300088748. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.