Expanding the Empirical Realm: No Threat to Constructive Empiricism
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Alessio Gava
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In his recent “Expanding the Empirical Realm: Constructive Empiricism and Augmented Observation” (2024), Finnur Dellsén recalls a quite famous case that Gideon Rosen put forward against manifestationalism thirty years ago, and maintains that an analogous argument might be presented against Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism. This study is meant as a response to Dellsén: while the idea behind his paper is sound, I do not think it actually works. In brief, the reason is that we do not have God’s point of view and thus are in no condition to know whether a certain scientific theory is empirically adequate, let alone true. Once again, perhaps constructive empiricism still represents the best compromise so far presented between strict empiricism and the acknowledgment of the rationality of science.
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empirismo constructivo, Dellsén, manifestacionalismo, observabilidad, van Fraassenconstructive empiricism, Dellsén, manifestationalism, observability, van Fraassen
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Vollmer, S. (2000). Two Kinds of Observation: Why van Fraassen Was Right to Make a Distinction, but Made the Wrong One. Philosophy of Science, 67(3), 355-365. https://doi.org/10.1086/392785
Alspector-Kelly, M. (2004). Seeing the Unobservable: van Fraassen and the Limits of Experience. Synthese, 140(3), 331-353. https://doi.org/10.1023/B:SYNT.0000031323.19904.45
Asay, J. & Bordner, S. S. (2015). A Modest Defense of Manifestationalism. Synthese, 192(1), 147-161. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-014-0556-5
Bourgeois, W. (1987). Discussion: On Rejecting Foss’s Image of Van Fraassen. Philosophy of Science, 54(2), 303-308.
Buekens, F. A. I. (1999). Observing in a Space of Reasons. Unpublished manuscript.
Buekens, F. A. I. & Muller, F. A. (2012). Intentionality Versus Constructive Empiricism. Erkenntnis, 76, 91-100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-011-9348-1
Bueno, O. (2011). A evidência visual na ciência. Scientiæ Studia, 9(2), 267-90. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1678-31662011000200003
Chakravartty, A. (2007). A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism. Knowing the Unobservable. Cambridge University Press.
Chang, H. (2004a). A Case for Old-Fashioned Observability, and a Reconstructed Constructive Empiricism. In Proceedings Philosophy of Science Association 19th Biennial Meeting – PSA 2004: PSA 2004 Contributed Papers, Austin, pp. 876-887.
Chang, H. (2004b). Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress. Oxford University Press.
Churchland, P. M. (1985). The Ontological Status of Observables: In Praise of the Superempirical Virtues. In P. Churchland & C. Hooker (Eds.), Images of Science. Essays on Realism and Empiricism, with a Reply form Bas C. van Fraassen (pp. 35-47). The University of Chicago Press.
Contessa, G. (2006). Constructive Empiricism, Observability, and Three Kinds of Ontological Commitment. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 37(3), 454-468.
Dellsén, F. (2024). Expanding the Empirical Realm: Constructive Empiricism and Augmented Observation. In Beisbart C. & Frauchiger M. (Eds.), Scientific Theories and Philosophical Stances: Themes from van Fraassen (pp. 127-146). De Gruyter.
Fraassen, B. C. van (1980). The Scientific Image. Clarendon Press.
Fraassen, B. C. van (1985). Empiricism in the Philosophy of Science. In P. Churchland & C. Hooker (Eds.), Images of Science. Essays on Realism and Empiricism, with a Reply form Bas C. van Fraassen (pp. 245-308). The University of Chicago Press.
Fraassen, B. C. van (2001). Constructive Empiricism now. Philosophical Studies, 106(1-2), pp. 151-170. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013126824473
Fraassen, B. C. van (2004). Preface to the Greek edition. URL: https://www.princeton.edu/~fraassen/books/pdfs/Sci_ImagePrefaceGreek.pdf
Fraassen, B. C. van (2005). The Day of the Dolphins. Puzzling Over Epistemic Partnership. In A. Irvine & K. Peacock (Eds.), Mistakes of Reason: Essays in Honour of John Woods (pp. 111-133). University of Toronto Press.
Fraassen, B. C. van (2008). Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective. Clarendon Press.
Kukla, A. (1996). The Theory-Observation Distinction. The Philosophical Review, 105(2), 173-230. https://doi.org/10.2307/2185717
Ladyman, J. (2004). Constructive Empiricism and Modal Metaphysics: A reply to Monton and van Fraassen. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 55 (4), 755-765.
Maxwell, G. (1962). The Ontological Status of Theoretical Entities. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 3, 3-27.
Monton, B. & Fraassen, B. C. van (2003). Constructive Empiricism and Modal Nominalism. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 54(3), 405-422. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/54.3.405
Railton, P. (1989). Explanation and Metaphysical Controversy. In P. Kitcher & W. C. Salmon (Eds.), Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XIII: Scientific explanation (pp. 220-252). University of Minnesota.
Rosen, G. (1994). What Is Constructive Empiricism? Philosophical Studies, 74(2), 143-178. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00989801
Seager, W. (1988). Scientific Anti-Realism and the Epistemic Community. PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vol. 1988, Volume One: Contributed Papers, pp. 181-187.
Sicha, J. F. (1992). Reviewed Work: Images of Science. Essays on Realism and Empiricism, with a Reply form Bas C. van Fraassen by P. M. Churchland; C. A. Hooker. Noûs, 26(4), 519-525.
Teller, P. (2001). Whither Constructive Empiricism? Philosophical Studies, 106(1-2), 123-150. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013170506726
Vollmer, S. (2000). Two Kinds of Observation: Why van Fraassen Was Right to Make a Distinction, but Made the Wrong One. Philosophy of Science, 67(3), 355-365. https://doi.org/10.1086/392785
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Gava, A. (2024). Expanding the Empirical Realm: No Threat to Constructive Empiricism . Universitas Philosophica, 41(83), 299–326. https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.uph41-83.erce
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