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Bas van Fraassen was born April 5th, 1941 in the German occupied Netherlands.
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Bas van Fraassen recieved his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh -
Van Fraassen coined the term "constructive empiricism" in his 1980 book The Scientific Image -
In his 1989 book Laws and Symmetry, van Fraassen attempted to lay the ground-work for explaining physical phenomena without assuming that such phenomena are caused by rules or laws which can be said to cause or govern their behavior.
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Bas van Fraassen won the Lakatos Award in 2012 for his contributions to philosophy of science -
Bas van Fraassen continues to teach at San Francisco State University, where he teaches courses in the philosophy of science, philosophical logic, and the role of modeling in scientific practice