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Professor Bas Van Fraassen FBA

Logic and philosophy of science, with concentration on foundations of physics, within an empiricist approach

Elected 2008

Fellow type: International Fellow
Year elected: 2008
Sections: Philosophy
Website: http://www.princeton.edu/~fraassen/

Current post

Distinguished University Professor, San Francisco State University

Past appointments

Unknown Unknown Distinguished University Professor, San Francisco State University

2008 -

Unknown Unknown Distinguished University Professor, San Francisco State University

2008 -

Princeton

1982 - 2008

University of Southern California, Los Angeles

1976 - 1981

University of Toronto

1969 - 1982

Yale University Yale University

1966 - 1969

Publications

Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective 2008

The Scientific Image 1980

The Peculiar Effects of Love and Desire 1988

The Empirical Stance 2002

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Jonathan Dancy FBA

Philosophy, especially moral philosophy and the philosophy of action

Professor Nicholas Jardine FBA

History of Science Early Modern History Philosophy of Science

Professor Samir Okasha FBA

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