The Empirical Stance - Couverture souple

Van Fraassen, Bas C.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0300103069 ISBN 13 : 9780300103069

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2004

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. 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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0300103069
• ISBN 13: 9780300103069
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304