Timeline: Bas van Fraassen

Apr 4, 1941

Bas van Fraassen's Birth

Bas van Fraassen is a Dutch-American born in the once occupied German Netherlands on April 4th, 1941. He and his family emigrated to Edmonton, in Western Canada. This was due to his father, him being a steamfitter, he had been forced to work at a factory in Hamburg.

1980

Bas van Fraassen's contribution

Bas can Fraassen had released a book in 1980 named, The Scientific Image. In it he had writing about Constructive empiricism which is his version of scientific anti-realism. As stated by Fraassen, "Science aims to give us theories which are empirically adequate; and acceptance of a theory involves as belief only that it is empirically adequate" (1980, 12). This book is widely accredited with its rehabilitating scientific anti-realism.

1986

Bas van Fraassen Awards

Bas van Fraassen won the Lakatos Award in 1986, this is awarded annually to someone who has made great contribution to the philosophy of science community in the form of a book published in English within the last six years. He had received the award for his book "The Scientific Image."