Bastiaan Cornelis van Fraassen (/væn ˈfrɑːsən/; born 5 April 1941) is a Dutch-American philosopher noted for his contributions to philosophy of science...

structuralism, its main proponent, Bas van Fraassen, has consistently distinguished between the two views. Bas van Fraassen is nearly solely responsible for...

pp. 243–45. Less clear is §10.3 of Bas van Fraassen, 1989. Laws and Symmetry. Oxford Univ. Press. Bas van Fraassen, 1989. Laws and Symmetry. Oxford Univ...

that differed from those of the logical positivists—was defended by Bas van Fraassen, Michael Dummett, Crispin Wright, Christopher Peacocke, David Wiggins...

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first conceived of in 1972 by Bas van Fraassen, in his paper "A formal approach to the philosophy of science". Van Fraassen introduced a distinction between...

reductionism referred to explanations, theories, and meanings, see Willard Van Orman Quine's Two Dogmas of Empiricism. Quine objected to the positivistic...

the term 'gunk'. Peter Van Inwagen believes in mereological nihilism, except for living beings, a view called organicism. Peter van Inwagen's 1983 monograph...

Actes du Congrès International Philosophie Scientifique. Paris. van Fraassen, Bas C. 1976. "Probabilities of conditionals” in W. L. Harper and C. A...

McDowell Ruth Millikan Alexander Pruss Nicholas Rescher Wilfrid Sellars Bas van Fraassen Pragmatism Susan Haack Nicholas Rescher Morton White Princeton Alonzo...