Bas van Fraassen

Bas van Fraassen
Bas van Fraassen
Born	5 April 1941 (age 83); Goes, German-occupied Netherlands
Alma mater	University of Alberta; University of Pittsburgh;
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy; Instrumentalism
Thesis	Foundations of the Causal Theory of Time (1966)
Doctoral advisor	Adolf Grünbaum
Doctoral students	Paul Thagard
Main interests	Philosophy of science; Bayesian epistemology; Philosophical logic; Free logic;
Notable ideas	Constructive empiricism; Empiricist structuralism; Distinction between a theory's representing-as and representing-that; Supervaluationism; Epistemological voluntarism (reflection principle);

Bastiaan Cornelis van Fraassen (/væn ˈfrɑːsən/; 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.

^ Scientific Realism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
^ "Doctoral Dissertations, 1977". The Review of Metaphysics. 31 (1): 174. 1977. ISSN 2154-1302. JSTOR 20127042.
^ David Marshall Miller, Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution, Cambridge University Press, 2014, p. 4 n. 2.
^ Free Logic (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
^ Sandy Boucher, "Stances and Epistemology: Values, Pragmatics, and Rationality", Metaphilosophy 49(4), July 2018, pp. 521–547.

Bas van Fraassen
Born	(1941-04-05) 5 April 1941 (age 83) Goes, German-occupied Netherlands
Alma mater	University of Alberta University of Pittsburgh

Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy Instrumentalism^[1]
Thesis	Foundations of the Causal Theory of Time (1966)
Doctoral advisor	Adolf Grünbaum
Doctoral students	Paul Thagard^[2]
Main interests	Philosophy of science Bayesian epistemology Philosophical logic Free logic
Notable ideas	Constructive empiricism Empiricist structuralism Distinction between a theory's representing-as and representing-that^[3] Supervaluationism^[4] Epistemological voluntarism^[5] (reflection principle)