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Bas C. van Fraassen

By Dkillough2
  • Birth

    Birth

    Bas C. van Fraassen was born on April 5th, 1941 in Goes, the Netherlands

  • Emigration to Canada

    In the summer of 1956, the van Fraassen family emigrated to Edmonton, Alberta
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    Education

    van Fraassen earned a BA in philosophy from the University of Alberta in 1963, followed closely by an MA (1964) and Ph.D. (1966) in Philosophy from the university of Pittsburgh

  • First Work on Constructive Empiricism

    van Frassen's book, The Scientific Image, was published in 1980. This was the first major work on the topic of Constructive Empiricism, a philosophy that states that scientific theories only aim to describe what is observable, and make no claims about what is unobservable. Therefore, a theory is true if everything it claims is observably real.

  • Constructive Empiricism Video

    HERE is a link to a video that more fully describes constructive empiricism

  • Bibliography

    HERE is a link to Bas van Fraassen's full CV, including an extensive bibliography.

  • Works Cited

    Bas van Fraassen: Publications. https://www.princeton.edu/~fraassen/pubs/index.htm. Accessed 5 May 2019
    CV of Bas C. van Fraassen
    https://www.princeton.edu/~fraassen/cv/. Accessed 5 May 2019.
    Monton, Bradley, and Chad Mohler. “Constructive Empiricism.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta, Summer 2017, Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2017. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2017/entries/constructive-empiricism