The Empirical Stance; Family and Material Culture, 1500-1800

, by Bas C. van Fraassen

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Copyright: 3/11/2004

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Preface

xiii

Introduction

xvii

Against Analytic Metaphysics

(30)

Living with a Dead Metaphysics

(2)

Ontology Reborn

(1)

Does the World Exist?

(1)

A Spectrum of Theories

(5)

Scientific Steps Beyond Science?

(7)

The Form of Success, and Its Failure

(7)

A Dilemma for the Conscientious

(2)

A World Well Lost

(4)

What Is Empiricism and What Could It Be?

(33)

In Search of a Tradition

(7)

Sketch of the Tradition as Usually Understood

(1)

History of the Word ``Empiricism''

(2)

Codification by the Historians: The Defining Criterion

(1)

Immediate Inadequacy of the Criterion

(1)

Sketch of the Tradition Continued: The Recurrent Rebellion

(2)

Critique: What Empiricism Cannot Be

(8)

The Period of Empiricist Critique of Empiricism

(1)

Foundationalist Epistemology: Doomed to Vicious Circle or Infinite Regress?

(1)

Reaching Deeper: Why Stonewalling Can't Work

(6)

What Empiricism Could Be: Philosophical Stances

(3)

The Recurrent Rebellion Re-examined: What Separates Empiricists from Metaphysicians?

(1)

How to Violate Principle Zero: The Stance

(1)

The Stance as Will and Idea

(1)

Example of a Stance Misunderstood: Materialism

(15)

Is This a Factual Claim?

(1)

What Is Matter?

(3)

Two Moves for Materialists

(1)

The First Move: Materialism as Scientific Hypothesis

(2)

The Second Move: Whatever It Takes

(2)

Materialism as False Consciousness

(3)

Materialism Without False Consciousness?

(1)

What Could Philosophy Be, Then?

(3)

Scientific Revolution/Conversion as a Philosophical Problem

(47)

The Problem: Our Rejected/Celebrated Past

(9)

Epistemic Trauma, Revolution, Conversion

(5)

The Problem of Radical Conversion as a Criterion of Adequacy

(2)

Frameworks For Solution

(18)

Two Forms of Epistemology

(3)

``Objectifying'' Epistemology

(4)

Voluntarism in Epistemology

(2)

Wilfrid Sellars's Irenic Axiology

(3)

William James's Epistemic Imperatives

(4)

The Problem of Revolutionary Changes in View: Not Yet Solved

(2)

The Impasse: Enter Emotion

(19)

In Transit Perilous: Conditions for Revolution

(1)

Pascal's Wager and Its Limits

(7)

Scientific Revolution/Conversion as a Decision Problem

101

(2)

Sartre and Pascal: Breaking the Decision Paradigm

103

(5)

No Exit?

108

(1)

Coda

109

(2)

Experience: (Epistemic) Life Without Foundations

111

(42)

After the Epistemological Impasse: Interpreting the Past

112

(5)

Ambiguity: Our Deconstructible Language

113

(2)

Criteria for Royal Succession in Science

115

(2)

Experience: Empiricist Fundamentalism and the Open Future

117

(22)

Feyerabend's Critique of Classical Empiricism

119

(6)

The Argument Hoist on Its Own Petard?

125

(6)

Experience: Undermining the Analogy

131

(6)

Fallibility: The Problem of Epistemic Frailty and Sin

137

(2)

Tolerating Ambiguity: The Inexhaustible, Unfathomable Historical Self

139

(14)

The Uses of an Unfollowable Rule

140

(3)

An Example: Bohm Versus the Copenhagen School

143

(2)

Ambiguity and Vagueness: Our Redeeming Weaknesses

145

(1)

Science as Representation and Interpretation

146

(5)

Scientific Revolution/Conversion in Perspective

151

(2)

What Is Science---and What Is It to Be Secular?

153

(44)

What is Science?

155

(19)

The Senses of ``Science''

155

(1)

Objectification as Characteristic of Science

156

(4)

Objectifying Inquiry: Pre-demarcation

160

(4)

Objectification: Science in the Widest Sense?

164

(1)

Is Genuine Novelty Possible?

165

(1)

Abnormal Endings: Crisis

166

(1)

Does Science Automatically Involve Completeness Claims?

167

(1)

How General Is This Concept of Objectifying Inquiry?

168

(2)

Are There Nonobjectifying Forms of Inquiry?

170

(2)

The Recurring Realist-Antirealist Break

172

(2)

So What is it to be Secular?

174

(23)

The Objectifying Attitude

174

(2)

Secularization of the World Picture

176

(3)

Existential Response

179

(1)

Emil Fackenheim, God's Presence in History

180

(3)

Martin Buber, The Eclipse of God

183

(2)

Rudolf Bultmann, New Testament and Mythology

185

(4)

Persons; Encounter with the Divine

189

(5)

Stranger in a Strange Land

194

(3)

Appendix A. Scientific Cosmology

197

(4)

Appendix B. A History of the Name ``Empiricism''

201

(25)

1. Not a Simple Historical Question

201

(1)

2. Early Modern Use: Scientific Methodologies

202

(1)

3. Kant: Classifying Philosophical Currents

203

(4)

4. Mill: An Alternative Classification of Philosophies

207

(2)

5. Emergence of the Textbook Classification

209

(4)

6. William James: ``Radical Empiricism''

213

(4)

7. Critique: The Difficulties About Experience (Husserl, Dewey)

217

(3)

8. Reichenbach's View of the History of Empiricism

220

(6)

Reichenbach's Popular Writings

220

(2)

Reichenbach's Third Way

222

(2)

Drawing on Science, the Right Way

224

(2)

Appendix C. Bultmann's Theology Is Not a Philosophy

226

(5)

Notes

231

(30)

Bibliography

261

(14)

Index

275

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The Empirical Stance; Family and Material Culture, 1500-1800

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