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Bas C. Van Fraassen wrote his first book titled, "The Empirical Stance" based on his first question he had as a philosopher, "What is Empiricism, and what could it be?" -
Bas C. Van Fraassen never stopped at his first book as he still had another opposing question that was more so in his words relative to the field of science in general, "What is scientific representation?" Therefore, he tackled that question with his published work called, "Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective." -
He is still alive and well with having graduated from both University of Alberta and Pittsburgh in Canada. Born in Germany though. He taught at Princeton University, Yale University, University of Toronto, and University of South California. He continues as the editor over the Journal of Philosophical Logic and plays a role in the American Philosophical Association.
https://www.princeton.edu/~fraassen/cv/ -