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The scientific image
New York: Oxford University Press (1980)
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In this book van Fraassen develops an alternative to scientific realism by constructing and evaluating three mutually reinforcing theories.Call number
Q175.V335 1980
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019824424X 9780198244271 9780198244240
DOI
10.2307/2184804
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Introduction
The opposition between empiricism and realism with respect to science is old: it appeared clearly in the seventeenth century sense of superiority of the ‘mechanical philosophy’ to Scholastic metaphysics, and continued for the next three centuries’ debates over the philosophical foundations... see more
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