The Empirical Stance

Reviews

• Richard Rorty, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002.07.07
• Paul Thagard, Science 298 (Nov. 1, 2002), 971
• James Sage, Metapsychology: Book Reviews 2003.01.16
• Fred Wilson, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 40, #5 (January 2003)40-2725
• Alicia Finch, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 77(2003), 302-307 (Acrobat)
• Zainal Abidin Bagir, Philosophy of Science 70 (2003), 842-844
• Otávio Bueno, Metascience 12 (2003), 360-363 (Acrobat)
• Bruce Hunter, Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendues Philosophiques, 23 #6 (2003), 419-422 (Acrobat)
• Jeffrey Koperski, Faith and Philosophy 21:2 (2004), 256-259 (Acrobat)
• Leon Horsten, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 18,(2004), 95-97 (Acrobat)
• Paul O'Grady, The Review of Metaphysics 57 (2004), 870-872
• John Ross Churchill, Religious Studies Review 32 (2006), 177-177
• Elijah Millgram, Philosophical Review, 115 (2006): 404-408
• Nicholas DiDonato, IBCSR online
• Peter Lipton, "Epistemic Options"

Articles

Collections of Critical Articles & Reply

The articles in these books span publications from The Scientific Image through The Empirical Stance

Bas C. van Fraassen, The Fortunes of Empiricism, ed. Andreas Berg-Hildebrand and Christian Suhm. Frankfurt: ontos verlag, 2006

Images of Empiricism: Essays on Science and Stances, with a Reply from Bas van Fraassen, ed. Bradley Monton. Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Articles

• Anjan Chakravartty, "Stance Relativism: Empiricism versus Metaphysics", Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part A 35, Issue 1 (March 2004), 173-184 (Acrobat)
• Rowbottom, D.P., "The Empirical Stance vs. The Critical Attitude", South African Journal of Philosophy, 24, 3(2005), 200-223 (Acrobat)
• Lydia Jaeger, "Bas van Fraassen on Religion and Knowledge: Is There a Third Way beyond Foundationalist Illusion and Bridled Irrationality?", American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 80 (2006), 581-602
• See also her Lois de la nature et raisons du coeur : les convictions religieuses dans le débat épistémologique contemporain, Peter Lang, Bern, 2007
• Peter van Inwagen, "Impotence and Collateral Damage: One Charge in Van Fraassen's Indictment of Analytical Metaphysics", Philosophical Topics 35 (2007): 67-82
• Peter van Inwagen, "The New Anti-Metaphysicians", (Presidential Address, APA Central 2009) Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 83 (2009)#2: 45-61

Symposia

• STANCE AND RATIONALITY: A PERSPECTIVE

  Eds.: Darrell P. Rowbottom and Otavio Bueno
  Special issue Synthese 178 #1 January 2011

  Contributors: Otavio Bueno, Matthias Steup, Peter Bauman, Anjan Chakravartty, Paul Teller, Jon Williamson, James Ladyman, E. J. Lowe, Darrell P. Rowbottom, Matthew Ratcliffe, Ward E. Jones, Alan Richardson
  Reply: Bas C. van Fraassen

• Book Symposium, in Philosophical Studies, November 2004, Volume 121 (Issue: 2)
  • 127-132 Bas C. van Fraassen Précis of The Empirical Stance
  • 133-146 James Ladyman - Empiricism versus Metaphysics
  • 147-158 Peter Lipton - Epistemic Options
  • 159-170 Paul Teller - What is a Stance?
  • 171-192 Bas C. van Fraassen Replies to discussion on the empirical stance (Acrobat)
• APA Pacific Division 2004
  • Reply to Chakravarrty, Jauernig, and McMullin (Acrobat)

Corrections to the book: The index lists pages 118 and 221 for T. H. Green; that should be 118 and 210. The critique mentioned on page 210 and in the note appended there is in the edition of Hume's Treatise listed under Hume in the bibliography.
Other corrections welcome!