Semantic holism is a doctrine in the philosophy of language to the effect that a certain part of language, be it a term or a complete sentence, can only be understood through its relations to a (previously understood) larger segment of language. There is substantial controversy, however, as to exactly what the larger segment of language in question consists of. In recent years, the debate surrounding semantic holism, which is one among the many forms of holism that are debated and discussed in contemporary philosophy, has tended to centre around the view that the "whole" in question consists of an entire language.
Bastiaan Cornelis van Fraassen (born in Goes, the Netherlands on 5 April 1941) is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University, teaching courses in the philosophy of science, philosophical logic and the role of models in scientific practice. He previously taught at Yale University, the University of Southern California (USC), the University of Toronto and Princeton University. He coined the term "constructive empiricism" in his 1980 book The Scientific Image. Van Fraassen earned his B.A. (1963) from the University of Alberta and his M.A. (1964) and Ph.D. (1966, under the direction of Adolf Grünbaum) from the University of Pittsburgh.
A philosopher of science, van Fraassen's 1989 book Laws and Symmetry attempted to lay the ground-work for explaining physical phenomena without using the assumption that such phenomena are caused by rules or laws which can be said to cause or govern their behavior. Focusing on the problem of underdetermination, he argued for the possibility that theories could have empirical equivalence but differ in their ontological commitments. He rejects the notion that the aim of science is to produce an account of the physical world that is literally true, but rather that its aim is to produce theories that are empirically adequate. Van Fraassen has also studied the philosophy of quantum mechanics, philosophical logic, and epistemology.
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Bas van Fraassen: The Semantic Approach to Science, After 50 Years
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Brandom on Hegel: Knowing & Representing (1st Lecture)
Merely Possible Propositions
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Quantum Holism to Cosmic Holism: Matthew Chandrankunnel at TEDxIITRoorkee
Bas van Fraassen: The Semantic Approach to Science, After 50 Years
Haecceitism
Brandom on Hegel: Knowing & Representing (1st Lecture)
Merely Possible Propositions
Thesis Series: Crossing the River, A Conceptual Framework for Response to Chaos
Environment and Global Society (Coulter/Mauch/Trischler/Zelko)
Emerging Problems of Emergentism & Psychosis of Panpsychism
Quantum Entanglement in the macroscopic world
What is information? What are bits?