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Science 1 November 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5595, p. 971
DOI: 10.1126/science.1078215
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PHILOSOPHY:
Empiricism, Realism, and Religion

A review by Paul Thagard

The Empirical Stance
Bas C. van Fraassen
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2002. 302 pp. $30, £22.50, €36. ISBN 0-300-08874-4.

In these lectures prepared for a general audience, van Frassen highlights the philosophical problems that surround the scientific revolution's shift from religious to secular "ways of seeing or conceiving of ourselves."
The author is in the Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1. E-mail: pthagard{at}uwaterloo.ca

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