• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: On the Rational Reconstruction of Our Theoretical Knowledge
  • Beteiligte: Demopoulos, William
  • Erschienen: Oxford University Press, 2003
  • Erschienen in: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISSN: 0007-0882; 1464-3537
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  • Beschreibung: <p>This paper concerns the rational reconstruction of physical theories initially advanced by F. P. Ramsey and later elaborated by Rudolf Carnap. The Carnap-Ramsey reconstruction of theoretical knowledge is a natural development of classical empiricist ideas, one that is informed by Russell's philosophical logic and his theories of propositional understanding and knowledge of matter; as such, it is not merely a schematic representation of the notion of an empirical theory, but the backbone of a general account of our knowledge of the physical world. Carnap-Ramsey is an illuminating approach to epistemological problems that remain with us, one whose difficulties are shared by accounts that have sought to replace it.</p>