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Title: The Scientific Image by Bastiaan C., Van Fraassen, B. C. Vanfrassen, Bas C. Van Fraassen ISBN: 0-19-824427-4 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 1982 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderfully important book
Comment: This is a must read for anyone wishing to sincerely engage in philosophy of science. It should change the way you think about science, but it does not deny anything essential to science. Just so you know, Van Fraassen is a Catholic, so he does seem to believe in unobservable entities, though he denies that empirical science as it is commonly understood can tell us anything about them directly.
Rating: 5
Summary: any critique of empiricism should address this book
Comment: In this book, van Fraassen put forth a 'constructive empiricist' anti-realist account of science. With a semantic/model approach to empirical adequacy, he provides the realist with an thesis to be reckoned with; van Fraassen addresses important rival views and paints a scientific picture which not only seems to mirror actual scientific practice, but provides what seem to be crucial norms.
Rating: 4
Summary: van fraassen's endorsement of unobservable entities
Comment: bas van fraassen in claiming to offer a viable alternativve to scientific realism has indirectly acknowledged the existence of unobservable entities in saying that we will nnot know eveything there is to know or everything thaat can be known in the universe/life.As an empiricist or form of it he generously engages the dicourse that unobservable entities DO have meaning but that they cant exist because any such admission would be a saving of realist theory(scientific realism posits the view that these objects have not only existence but meaning too).scientific realism is optimistic in that it belives that everything can be known or discovered by advocating this view of science,but vF rejcts this but by doing so he has created an entity that will remain forever unknowable to the mind,an unobsevable entity technically if nothing else he creates their existence and this is contrary to his position. paul neilan an NUIG student.
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Title: Structure of Science by Ernest Nagel ISBN: 0915144719 Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Pub. Date: November, 1979 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Laws and Symmetry by Bas C. Van Fraasen, Bas C. Van Fraassen ISBN: 0198248601 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: January, 1990 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: How the Laws of Physics Lie by Nancy Cartwright ISBN: 0198247044 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: August, 1983 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Philosophy of Natural Science by Carl G. Hempel ISBN: 0136638236 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 15 August, 1966 List Price(USD): $32.20 |
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Title: Science and Relativism: Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations Series) by Larry Laudan ISBN: 0226469492 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: December, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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