The Scientific Image

Fraassen, B. C. V. (1980). The Scientific Image. Oxford University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1980

DOI

10.1093/0198244274.001.0001

ISBN

9780198244271

DOI registrant

Oxford University Press

Link

https://academic.oup.com/book/7116

Cited from

philosophy

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

Primes

• Phenomenalism
  • … of sense-datum theory; appears in logical positivism (Vienna Circle, Carnap, Ayer) as the reductive program for empirical meaningfulness of scientific statements; and appears in more moderate forms in contemporary constructive empiricism (van Fraassen 1980) as a stance about the extent of scientific commitment.

Mechanisms

• Inference-to-Best-Explanation Matrix
  • Its central failure mode is that the matrix can only rank the candidates you thought to list — it will confidently crown the least-bad row of a weak set, the "best of a bad lot" objection to inference to the best explanation.

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