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Bas van Fraassen

By laurenlilly

  • Born - (present)

  • The Scientific Image, Oxford University Press 1980.

    Bas van Fraassen defines constructive empiricism “science aims to give us theories which are empirically adequate; and acceptance of a theory involves as belief only that
    it is empirically adequate”
    Realism is the acceptance that non-observable phenomena exist.
    Anti-realism is that a theory should never be regarded as true.
    Constructive empiricism agrees that theories should not aim for truth about unobservable, we should limit ourselves to what we can observe.

  • The Empirical Stance, Yale University Press, 2002.

    Bas van Fraassen addresses empiricism and religion, and what it means so be secular, and the relation to science.

  • Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective, OUP, 2008.

    Bas van Fraassen describes natural phenomena as theories through pictures, graphs and models. He then presents these as representations for twentieth-century science to see what comes to light.