In Defence of Constructive Empiricism: Metaphpysics versus Science

Muller, F.A. (2003) In Defence of Constructive Empiricism: Metaphpysics versus Science.

Abstract

A defence of constructive empiricism against an attack of N. Maxwell by means of his pet-thesis that science implicitly and permanently accepts a metaphysical thesis about the nature of the universe. We argue that Maxwell's attack can be beaten off; that his arguments do not establish what Maxwell believes they establish; and that we can draw a number of valuable lessons from these attacks about the nature of science and of the libertatian nature of constructive empiricism.