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Empiricism Reformed
Conscious Experience is a rigorous and intriguing reanimation of the empiricist tradition. There are many riches in the book that caused me to...
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Ecological Empiricism
Both metaphysics and cognitive science raise the question of what natural concepts or properties are. A link between the two is notoriously hard to...
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Nativism and empiricism in artificial intelligence
Historically, the dispute between empiricists and nativists in philosophy and cognitive science has concerned human and animal minds (Margolis and...
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What Is Wrong with Aesthetic Empiricism? An Experimental Study
According to Aesthetic Empiricism, only the features of artworks accessible by sensory perception can be aesthetically relevant. In other words,...
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Reformed Empiricism, in Brief
This essay reviews the principal tenets of Reformed Empiricism about experience and its relationship to thought. It outlines the account the view...
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Truth in Reformed Empiricism
In this short piece, I show that there is a tension regarding the twofold nature of experience. Experience is powerful enough to alter our entire...
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A Defense of Reformed Empiricism
I defend Reformed Empiricism against the following objections: (i) that it institutes a veil of perception; (ii) that it fails to secure singular...
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Appendix 2: How Aim-Oriented Empiricism Would Benefit Science
A major consideration in favour of aim-oriented empiricism is that it has fruitful implications for science. This chapter concentrates on fruitful...
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Esca** Dialogical Empiricism
This chapter assesses ways to avoid the preceding anti-metaphysical conclusion. Said conclusion can be accommodated by opting for a coherentist...
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Strategic Unity of Marxism and Empiricism
The chapter delineates a striking convergence of empiricism and Marxism in the pre-revolutionary Russian philosophy and theory, which the author...
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Evidence, Inference, and Empiricism
This chapter examines how the burden of proof can be discharged. It is argued that evidence in support of a questioned hypothesis is persuasively...
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The Root of the Third Dogma of Empiricism: Davidson vs. Quine on Factualism
Davidson has famously argued that conceptual relativism, which, for him, is based on the content-scheme dualism, or the “third dogma” of empiricism,...
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The Post-Newtonian Blunder, and the Failure to Develop Aim-Oriented Empiricism
Modern science began as natural philosophy. Two ingredients are essential: first, the adoption of the metaphysical conjecture that the universe is...
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Extended Cognition and Constructive Empiricism
According to constructive empiricists, accepting a scientific theory involves belief only that it is true of the observable world, where...
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Introduction: The Socio-ethical Concern of Logical Empiricism
In this introduction, various notions of socio-political and ethical engagements are introduced. Some examples from logical empiricism are discussed...
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That was the Philosophy of Biology that was: Mainx, Woodger, Nagel, and Logical Empiricism, 1929–1961
This article is a systematic critical survey of work done in the philosophy of biology within the logical empiricist tradition, beginning in the...
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Logical Empiricism and Naturalism Neurath and Carnap’s Metatheory of Science
This text provides an extensive exploration of the relationship between the thought of Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap, providing a new argument for...
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Empiricism Must, but Cannot, Presuppose Real Causation
In this article, I put forward a basic philosophical claim: empirical scientific knowledge, that is, knowledge generated in experimental and...
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