- Title
- Being moved by a way the world is not
- Creator
- Jones, Ward E
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/275631
- Identifier
- vital:55064
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-009-9522-z"
- Description
- At the end of Lecture 3 of The Empirical Stance, Bas van Fraassen suggests that we see the change of view involved in scientific revolutions as being, at least in part, emotional. In this paper, I explore one plausible way of cashing out this suggestion. Someone’s emotional approval of a description of the world, I argue, thereby shows that she takes herself to have reason to take that description seriously. This is true even if she is convinced—as a scientific community is when it considers alternative theories—that this description is false, that it is not the way the world is.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (11 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- SpringerLink
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Synthese, Jones, W.E., 2011. Being moved by a way the world is not. Synthese, 178(1), pp.131-141, Synthese volume 178 number 1 p. 131 2011 1573-0964
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
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- Rights
- Open Access
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