Philosopher

Bas van Fraassen

Overview

Bastiaan Cornelis "Bas" van Fraassen (; Dutch: [bɑs vɑn ˈfraːsə(n)]; born 5 April 1941) is a Dutch-American philosopher noted for his contributions to philosophy of science, epistemology and formal logic. He is a distinguished professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and the McCosh Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton University.

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Philosophers who discussed Bas van Fraassen

• Nuel Belnap
• Tim Maudlin
• Paul Thagard
• Adolf Grünbaum
• Elisabeth Lloyd

Ideas Bas van Fraassen discusses

• Empiricism
• Journal of Symbolic Logic
• Western philosophy
• Bachelor of Arts
• Analytic philosophy
• Underdetermination
• Logical positivism
• Doctor of Philosophy
• Anti-realism
• Ontology
• Indiana University
• Princeton University
• University of Pittsburgh
• Philosophy of Science Association
• Stanford University
• Instrumentalism
• Semantics
• Philosophical logic
• Willard Van Orman Quine
• Wilfrid Sellars
• Yale University
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Philosophy of science
• Many-valued logic

Place in the tradition

Part of Formal epistemology.

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