Bastiaan Cornelis van Fraassen, born 5 April 1941, is a Dutch-American philosopher noted for his contributions to philosophy of science, epistemology and formal logic; he is a distinguished professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and the McCosh Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton University.
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Defining MomentAwarded the Lakatos Award in 1986 for his contributions to the philosophy of science 1 Notable PublicationThe Scientific Image (1980) 1 Office HeldDistinguished Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State University; McCosh Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Princeton University 1 BirthplaceGerman-occupied Netherlands 1 TraditionConstructive empiricism in philosophy of science 1 Tradition
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Bastiaan Cornelis "Bas" van Fraassen (; Dutch: [bɑs vɑn ˈfraːsə(n)]; born 5 April 1941) is a Dutch-American philosopher noted for his contributions to philosophy of science, epistemology and formal logic.
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Bastiaan Cornelis "Bas" van Fraassen (; Dutch: [bɑs vɑn ˈfraːsə(n)]; born 5 April 1941) is a Dutch-American philosopher noted for his contributions to philosophy of science, epistemology and formal logic.
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Van Fraassen was born in the German-occupied Netherlands on 5 April 1941.
Philosophy of science section
Van Fraassen coined the term "constructive empiricism" in his 1980 book The Scientific Image, in which he argued for agnosticism about the reality of unobservable entities.
career section, awards
In 1986, Van Fraassen received the Lakatos Award for his contributions to the philosophy of science and, in 2012, the Philosophy of Science Association's inaugural Hempel Award for lifetime achievement in philosophy of science.
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He is a distinguished professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and the McCosh Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton University.
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is a Dutch-American philosopher
In Branch: Philosophy of Science, Infobox: main_interests
Philosophy of science, Bayesian epistemology, Philosophical logic, Free logic
In Branch: Logic, Infobox: main_interests
Philosophy of science, Bayesian epistemology, Philosophical logic, Free logic
In Group: Analytic Philosophy Of Science, Infobox: school_tradition
Analytic philosophy Instrumentalism
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