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Goes, Netherlands -
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Family immigrated to Canada after WW2 -
Earned a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Alberta. -
Earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh while studying under Adolf Grunbaum. -
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Time and Space, Random House, New York 1970.
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Formal Semantics and Logic, Macmillan, New York 1971.
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Derivation and Counterexample: An Introduction to Philosophical Logic (with Karel Lambert), Dickenson Publishing Company, Inc. 1972.
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Constructive Empiricism: 1980, The Scientific Image, advocating agnosticism about the reality of unobservable entities.
The Scientific Image, Oxford University Press 1980. -
Received the Lakatos Award in 1986 for contributions to the philosophy of science. -
Laws and Symmetry, Oxford University Press 1989
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Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist View, Oxford University Press, 1991.
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Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; an overseas member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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The Empirical Stance, Yale University Press, 2002.
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Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective, OUP, 2008.
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Philosophy of Science Association's inaugural Hempel Award for lifetime achievement in philosophy of science -
