van Fraassen, Bas C.

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VAN FRAASSEN, Bas C.

VAN FRAASSEN, Bas C. American (born Netherlands), b. 1941. Genres: Philosophy, Sciences. Career: Yale University, New Haven, CT, assistant professor, 1966-68, associate professor of philosophy, 1968-69; University of Toronto, professor of philosophy, 1969-81; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, professor of philosophy, 1976-81; Princeton University, NJ, McCosh Professor of Philosophy, 1982-. Journal of Philosophical Logic, ed.in-chief, 1971-77. Publications: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Time and Space, 1970; Formal Semantics and Logic, 1971; (with K. Lambert) Derivation and Counterexample: An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, 1972; The Scientific Image, 1980; (ed. with E. Beltrametti) Current Issues in Quantum Logic, 1982; Laws and Symmetry, 1989; Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist View, 1991; The Empirical Stance, 2002. Address: Dept. of Philosophy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]

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