Class information for:
Level 1: SCIENTIFIC REALISM//VAN FRAASSEN//CONSTRUCTIVE EMPIRICISM

Basic class information
ID Publications Average number
of references		 Avg. shr. active
ref. in WoS
13246 786 25.8 22%


Bar chart of Publication_year

Last years might be incomplete

Classes in level above (level 2)


ID, lev.
above		 Publications Label for level above
1658 6326 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE//BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE//SYNTHESE

Terms with highest relevance score


Rank Term Type of term Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class
1 SCIENTIFIC REALISM Author keyword 19 36% 5% 42
2 VAN FRAASSEN Author keyword 18 67% 2% 16
3 CONSTRUCTIVE EMPIRICISM Author keyword 12 63% 2% 12
4 NO MIRACLES ARGUMENT Author keyword 12 86% 1% 6
5 PESSIMISTIC INDUCTION Author keyword 10 63% 1% 10
6 TRUTHLIKENESS Author keyword 8 62% 1% 8
7 APPROXIMATE TRUTH Author keyword 6 71% 1% 5
8 AIM OF SCIENCE Author keyword 6 100% 1% 4
9 PESSIMISTIC META INDUCTION Author keyword 5 63% 1% 5
10 THEORY LADENNESS Author keyword 5 44% 1% 8

Web of Science journal categories

Author Key Words


Rank Web of Science journal category Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class		 LCSH search Wikipedia search
1 SCIENTIFIC REALISM 19 36% 5% 42 Search SCIENTIFIC+REALISM Search SCIENTIFIC+REALISM
2 VAN FRAASSEN 18 67% 2% 16 Search VAN+FRAASSEN Search VAN+FRAASSEN
3 CONSTRUCTIVE EMPIRICISM 12 63% 2% 12 Search CONSTRUCTIVE+EMPIRICISM Search CONSTRUCTIVE+EMPIRICISM
4 NO MIRACLES ARGUMENT 12 86% 1% 6 Search NO+MIRACLES+ARGUMENT Search NO+MIRACLES+ARGUMENT
5 PESSIMISTIC INDUCTION 10 63% 1% 10 Search PESSIMISTIC+INDUCTION Search PESSIMISTIC+INDUCTION
6 TRUTHLIKENESS 8 62% 1% 8 Search TRUTHLIKENESS Search TRUTHLIKENESS
7 APPROXIMATE TRUTH 6 71% 1% 5 Search APPROXIMATE+TRUTH Search APPROXIMATE+TRUTH
8 AIM OF SCIENCE 6 100% 1% 4 Search AIM+OF+SCIENCE Search AIM+OF+SCIENCE
9 PESSIMISTIC META INDUCTION 5 63% 1% 5 Search PESSIMISTIC+META+INDUCTION Search PESSIMISTIC+META+INDUCTION
10 THEORY LADENNESS 5 44% 1% 8 Search THEORY+LADENNESS Search THEORY+LADENNESS

Key Words Plus


Rank Web of Science journal category Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class
1 CONVERGENT REALISM 51 91% 3% 21
2 VAN FRAASSEN 27 92% 1% 11
3 CONSTRUCTIVE EMPIRICISM 25 77% 2% 17
4 EMPIRICAL EQUIVALENCE 19 68% 2% 17
5 THEORETICAL NEUTRALITY 18 67% 2% 16
6 VERISIMILITUDE 14 48% 3% 22
7 UNDERDETERMINATION 10 46% 2% 17
8 PERCEPTUAL PLASTICITY 7 44% 2% 12
9 LEPLIN 6 80% 1% 4
10 APPROXIMATE TRUTH 6 100% 1% 4

Journals


Rank Web of Science journal category Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class
1 JOURNAL FOR GENERAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 3 13% 2% 18
2 INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 1 11% 1% 10
3 MINNESOTA STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 1 13% 1% 8

Reviews


Title Publ. year Cit. Active
references		 % act. ref.
to same field
Realism's new miracle? 1999 0 3 100%
Is perception informationally encapsulated? The issue of the theory-ladenness of perception 2001 20 44 9%
Paradigm errors in the old biomedical science 2008 0 9 22%
Is vision continuous with cognition? The case for cognitive impenetrability of visual perception 1999 256 75 1%
Higgs bosons, electroweak symmetry breaking, and the physics of the Large Hadron Collider 2007 2 22 5%
OBSERVATIONAL AND THEORETICAL TERMS IN PSYCHOLOGY - A COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE ON SCIENTIFIC LANGUAGE 1989 10 13 8%

Address terms


Rank Address term Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ.
in class
1 PHILOSOPHIE POLIT WISSEN 1 40% 0.3% 2
2 VIENNA CIRCLE 1 40% 0.3% 2
3 CAMPUS 212 1 50% 0.1% 1
4 CARL VON LINDE AKAD 1 50% 0.1% 1
5 DUSSELDORF LOG PHILOSOPHY SCI 1 50% 0.1% 1
6 FAK 14 1 50% 0.1% 1
7 LEHRSTUHL PHILOSOPHIE WISSEN THEORIE 1 50% 0.1% 1
8 PHILOS CLASSICS 1 50% 0.1% 1
9 PHILOSOPHY 065 1 50% 0.1% 1
10 EDELSTEIN HIST PHILOSOPHY SCI 0 33% 0.1% 1

Related classes at same level (level 1)


Rank Relatedness score Related classes
1 0.0000259344 STRUCTURAL REALISM//QUASI SETS//HOLE ARGUMENT
2 0.0000219147 NORMATIVE NATURALISM//THOMAS KUHN//PYRRHONIAN SCEPTICISM
3 0.0000214711 GRUE//BAYESIANISM//PROBABILISTIC SUPPORT
4 0.0000138364 INDUCTIVE RISK//VALUES IN SCIENCE//SCIENCE AND VALUES
5 0.0000121825 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE//EXPLANATION//SCIENTIFIC REPRESENTATION
6 0.0000104110 SEMINAR MATH IHRE DIDAKTIK//STRUCTURALIST VIEW//INT NURSING ETH
7 0.0000101240 MODEL THEORETIC ARGUMENT//AVOWALS//NEO EXPRESSIVISM
8 0.0000094584 SELZ//AGASSI//CLOSED SOCIETY
9 0.0000092917 BIOL PHILOSOPHY//DAVID HULL//INTEGRATION OF DISCIPLINES
10 0.0000078538 B C VAN FRAASSEN//EPISTEMOLOGICAL REALISM//METAPHYSICAL PARADIGM