How to be an empiricist
This video examines stance empiricism, proposed by Bas van Fraassen in his book "The Empirical Stance". I begin by outlining some of the problems with standard definitions of empiricism, and then turn to van Fraassen's argument against construing empiricism as a belief. I then discuss the features of empiricism as a stance, and the empiricist critique of metaphysics.
0:00 - Introduction
2:27 - Textbook empiricism
18:46 - The problem of empiricist belief
28:24 - Empiricism as a stance
41:50 - The critique of metaphysics
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Philosophers in the thumbnail: William of Ockham, David Hume, Ernst Mach, Bas van Fraassen.