Bas C. van Fraassen (Bastiaan Cornelis van Frassen)

[Published] The Scientific Image - Constructive Empiricism (1980):

1980

argued for agnosticism about the reality of unobservable entities; Per Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the book is “widely credited with rehabilitating scientific Anti-realism. Where van Fraassen states that theories reference unobservables. The thin line between accepting the theory entirely or accepting them as claims. An avenue where he accepted what the theories deliver that is in fact observable.

[Published] Laws and Symmetry (1989):

1989

began to discuss the ground-work for explaining physical phenomena without if such phenomena are caused by rules or laws which can be said to cause or govern their behavior.

[Published] Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective (2008):

Aug 14, 2008

This publication inquires that way in which nature is represented in general. Referencing a plethora of sources such as Plato, the Renaissance, and geometric styles of modern physics. As well as referencing Reichenbach’s “problem of coordination’. Overall defending the empiricist structuralist version/perspective of “picture theory” science. Lastly, it was an avenue for Van Fraassen to analyze the critical relationship of appearance and reality.

[Interview] “Science Should Stay Clear of Metaphysics”: Interview with Peter Bryne (September 8, 2016) - Reviewing Anti-realism: 

Sep 8, 2016

This was an interview where Van Fraassen discusses his publication of The Scientific Image and how it heavily influenced the debate between realism and empiricism and Scientific Representation where van Fraassen argued experimental data is no more than a representation of an observable asset. Stating that “It is practically impossible to describe the chaos of what actually happens in the world”.