International Journal of Philosophical Studies 22 (4):604-616 (2014)
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In this paper, I argue that Constructive Empiricism (CE) is ambiguous between two interpretations: CE as a normative epistemology of science and CE as a descriptive philosophy of science. When they present CE, constructive empiricists write as if CE is supposed to be more than a normative epistemology of science and that it is meant to be responsible to actual scientific practices. However, when they respond to objections, constructive empiricists fall back on a strictly normative interpretation of CE. This ambiguity seems to make CE immune to objections in a rather ad hoc fashion
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Keywords | Bas van Fraassen constructive empiricism inference to the best explanation scientific realism voluntarist epistemology |
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DOI | 10.1080/09672559.2014.895774 |
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Inference to the Best Explanation.Peter Lipton - 1991 - London and New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group.
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