caa a22 4500 60547513X CHVBK 20210128100350.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10516-014-9254-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10516-014-9254-7 Gallegos Sergio Department of Philosophy, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Central Classroom, 307-J, P.O. Box 173362, 80217-3362, Denver, CO, USA aut Measurement and Metaphysics in van Fraassen's Scientific Representation [Elektronische Daten] [Sergio Gallegos] Van Fraassen has presented in Scientific Representation an attractive notion of measurement as an important part of the empiricist structuralism that he endorses. However, he has been criticized on the grounds that both his notion of measurement and his empiricist structuralism force him to do the very thing he objects to in other philosophical projects—to endorse a controversial metaphysics. This paper proposes a defense of van Fraassen by arguing that his project is indeed a ‘metaphysical' project, but one which is very similar to Strawson's ‘descriptive metaphysics'; if this is the case, van Fraassen's project may be taken, following recent suggestions made by Ney and Paul, as a form of metaphysics that can potentially make a crucial contribution to scientific inquiry. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 van Fraassen nationallicence Strawson nationallicence Measurement nationallicence Descriptive metaphysics nationallicence Neo-Kantianism nationallicence Axiomathes Springer Netherlands 25/1(2015-03-01), 117-131 1122-1151 25:1<117 2015 25 10516 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-014-9254-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-014-9254-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Gallegos Sergio Department of Philosophy, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Central Classroom, 307-J, P.O. Box 173362, 80217-3362, Denver, CO, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Axiomathes Springer Netherlands 25/1(2015-03-01), 117-131 1122-1151 25:1<117 2015 25 10516