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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1997 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1995 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1969 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Bas C. van Fraassen is affiliated with San Francisco State University in the United States. Their research spans several intersecting fields including experimental and cognitive psychology, philosophy, and the history and philosophy of science. These areas reflect their focus on fundamental questions about knowledge, belief, and scientific practice.

Van Fraassen's recent publications cover various topics related to philosophy and theoretical science, epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics, as well as the philosophy and history of science. Notable recent papers include:

  • Reflection and conditionalization: Comments on Michael Rescorla, 2022, published in Noûs
  • A Landscape of Logics beyond the Deduction Theorem (and Moore's Paradox), 2022, published in Principia an international journal of epistemology
  • What Is Scientific Realism?, 2021, published in DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • What Is Scientific Realism?, 2021, published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The frequent co-authors working with van Fraassen include:

  • Anjan Chakravartty
  • Raoni Wohnrath Arroyo
  • Félix Flores Pinheiro

The scholar regularly publishes in these venues:

  • Noûs
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • Principia an international journal of epistemology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Van Fraassen's research engages deeply with the topics of:

  • Philosophy and Theoretical Science
  • Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
  • Philosophy and History of Science

They have been recognized with several honors during their career, including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1997
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1995
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1969

Best Publications

  • The scientific image

    William Demopoulos;Bas C. van Fraassen

  • Laws and symmetry

    Bas C. van Fraassen

  • Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective

    Bas C. van Fraassen

  • The Empirical Stance

    Bas C. van Fraassen

  • Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist View

    Paul Teller;Bas C. van Fraassen

  • Singular Terms, Truth-Value Gaps, and Free Logic

    Bas C. van Fraassen

  • Belief and the Will

    Bas C. van Fraassen

  • Presupposition, Implication, and Self-Reference

    Bas C. van Fraassen

  • Values and the Heart's Command

    Bas C. Van Fraassen

  • An introduction to the philosophy of time and space

    John Earman;Bas C. van Fraassen

  • Formal semantics and logic

    Bas C. Van Fraassen

  • On the Extension of Beth's Semantics of Physical Theories

    Bas C. van Fraassen

  • The Charybdis of Realism: Epistemological Implications of Bell’s Inequality

    Bas C. Van Fraassen

  • Belief and the problem of Ulysses and the sirens

    Bas C. van Fraassen

  • Probabilities of Conditionals

    Bas C. Van Fraassen

  • Constructive Empiricism Now

    Bas C. van Fraassen

  • Structure: Its Shadow and Substance

    Bas C. van Fraassen

  • The Pragmatics of Explanation

    Bas C. Van Fraassen

  • The Logic of Conditional Obligation

    Bas C. Van Fraassen

  • Possibilities and Paradox: An Introduction to Modal and Many-Valued Logic

    J. C. Beall;Bastiaan C. Van Fraassen

  • A Defence of van Fraassen’s Critique of Abductive Inference: Reply to Psillos

    James Ladyman;Igor Douven;Leon Horsten;Bas van Fraassen

  • Current Issues in Quantum Logic

    Enrico G. Beltrametti;Bas C. Van Fraassen

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven French
Steven French University of Leeds
Stathis Psillos
Stathis Psillos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Brian Skyrms
Brian Skyrms University of California, Irvine
John Earman
John Earman University of Pittsburgh
Frank Jackson
Frank Jackson Australian National University
James Ladyman
James Ladyman University of Bristol
Igor Douven
Igor Douven Sorbonne University
Nancy Cartwright
Nancy Cartwright Durham University

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