Theory Construction and Experiment: An Empiricist View

PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1980:663-678 (1980)
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This paper focuses on the empiricism/realism debate. The initial portion of the paper is a short sketch of the nature of the enterprise of philosophy of science. What are taken as empiricist views on theory construction and experiment are described. The paper concludes with a simple recasting of the main points at issue in the empiricism/realism debate

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Bas C. Van Fraassen
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