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Birthday
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Published Book: "An Introduction to the Philosophy of Time and Space"
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Published: "Formal Semantics and Logic"
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Published Book "The Scientific Image"
"Scientific Realism" and "Constructive Empiricism". Empirical Adequacy and Observability, the concept of empirical adequacy is explicated in terms of "observables" (Hanson 2). How is van Fraassen's characterization of empirical adequacy in terms of observation supposed to help the cause of Constructive Empiricism by blocking realist critics of antirealist arguments? If science has an aim, then commitment to a theory is rational only if such commitment serves that aim, -
Published "Laws and Symmetry"
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Published Book "The Empirical Stance"
This book is a series of lectures van Fraassen wrote about 5 different topics.
Lecture 1: Against Analytic Metaphysics
Lecture 2: Empiricism and what it could be
Lecture 3: Scientific Revolution/Conversion as a Philosophical Problem
Lecture 4: Experience Life without Foundations
Lecture 5: What is Science and What is it to be secular? -
Interview Video: What are the Scope and Limits of Science?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brAOVfAoimQ
This is a short 11-minute video of an interview with Bas van Fraassen. He's asked what he thinks reality is all about and the scope and limits of science. He starts out by saying he thinks of science as a large human enterprise with certain criteria of success. Science will give us the best possible explanation and description of what we find in the observable realm (Closer to Truth). Bas van Fraassen states his view on being an "antirealist." -
Created Blog
https://basvanfraassensblog.home.blog/ Bas van Fraassen started his own blog and has regularly posted since its creation in July 2019. He has written about paradox's, ideas of logic, and even his dogs. One of his first philosophical posts is about Moore's Paradox. This paradox is that there are statements which could be true but cannot be believed, on pain of incoherence (Moore's Paradox Blog). This paradox explains a lot about logic and expressing one's theory on a topic.
