The first merit of this remarkable defense of
empiricism in ethics and economics is its frank status quaestionis and chosen perspective.
If Posner's
empiricism is misdirected, is there a better way to use empirical science in constitutional law?
But if we were to hold instead that such external events count as our "sensory evidence", then Quine's position could again accommodate the "two cardinal tenets of
empiricism": on this analysis, experience would once more be shareable as well as appealed to in stating the constraints on translation.
But historical specificity -- surely a plausible commitment for someone vindicating "
empiricism" -- is not McDonald's strong suit.
The present case studies the effectiveness of utilizing collaborative
empiricism for psychological adjustment of client with chronic medical condition.
A commitment to
empiricism is also a form of check and balance.
Arguably, then, in such a perspective constructive
empiricism is safe, as long as it meets the criteria just mentioned (which it does)--and van Fraassen's exact definition or use of the adjective "observable" is of no impact.
Synopsis: In "Aristotle's
Empiricism: Experience and Mechanics in the 4th Century B.C.", Jean De Groot argues that an important part of Aristotle's natural philosophy has remained largely unexplored and shows that much of Aristotle's analysis of natural movement is influenced by the logic and concepts of mathematical mechanics that emerged from late Pythagorean thought.
Bennett, Words, Space, and the Audience: The Theatrical Tension Between
Empiricism and Rationalism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Pages 179.
He surveys recent scholarship on the beginnings of the phenomenological theory, existentialist critiques of Husserl's theory, language-analytic accounts and the new
empiricism, computer models and functional explanations, criticisms of the analytic-empirical approach, extensions of the phenomenological theory, and a hybrid project that contains the best of both approaches.