Empiricism and observation: a historical perspective on the primacy of observability in Van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism
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Empiricism; Constructive Empiricism; Observability; Observation; Van Fraassen.Abstract
The emphasis on the role of observation, one of the hallmarks of Empiricism, is reaffirmed by the primacy of the distinction between observable and unobservable in Bas van Fraassen’s Constructive Empiricism. In this paper it will be showed that, despite being one the main topics of discussion in contemporary philosophy of science, particularly thanks to van Fraassen, the question of observation and observability is actually so old as philosophy itself and has to do with the willingness, that defines empiricism, to keep ‘within the limits’.
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