Bastiaan C. Van Fraassen

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The Scientific Image (1980) (3296)
Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist View (1991) (581)
Singular Terms, Truth-Value Gaps, and Free Logic (1966) (435)
Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective (2008) (321)
Values and the Heart's Command (1973) (271)
Presupposition, Implication, and Self-Reference (1968) (205)
On the Extension of Beth's Semantics of Physical Theories (1970) (189)
Belief and the problem of Ulysses and the sirens (1995) (163)
The Charybdis of realism: Epistemological implications of bell's inequality (1982) (161)
The logic of conditional obligation (1972) (144)
An Introduction To The Philosophy Of Time And Space (1970) (130)
Fine-grained opinion, probability, and the logic of full belief (1995) (114)
Probabilities of Conditionals (1976) (114)
Constructive Empiricism Now (2001) (105)
Structure: Its Shadow and Substance (2006) (98)
Semantic Analysis of Quantum Logic (1973) (97)
The Pragmatics of Explanation (1977) (86)
Figures in a Probability Landscape (1990) (83)
A Defence of van Fraassen’s Critique of Abductive Inference: Reply to Psillos (1997) (82)
Current Issues in Quantum Logic (1981) (77)
The Semantic Approach to Scientific Theories (1987) (77)
Calibration: A Frequency Justification for Personal Probability (1983) (74)
Meaning Relations among Predicates (1967) (73)
Possibilities and Paradox: An Introduction to Modal and Many-Valued Logic (2003) (69)
Structure and Perspective: Philosophical Perplexity and Paradox (1997) (69)
Rational Belief and Probability Kinematics (1980) (63)
Symmetry as a guide to superfluous theoretical structure (2003) (60)
The Only Necessity is Verbal Necessity (1977) (59)
The perils of Perrin, in the hands of philosophers (2009) (57)
The Labyrinth of Quantum Logics (1974) (55)
The False Hopes of Traditional Epistemology (2000) (54)
From a View of Science to a New Empiricism (2007) (52)
Putnam's Paradox: Metaphysical Realism Revamped and Evaded (2008) (48)
A Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (1981) (47)
Warrant in Contemporary Epistemology: Essays in Honor of Plantinga's Theory of Knowledge (1996) (46)
Gideon Rosen on constructive empiricism (1994) (44)
One or Two Gentle Remarks about Hans Halvorson’s Critique of the Semantic View (2014) (44)
A Temporal Framework for Conditionals and Chance (1980) (44)
Representational of conditional probabilities (1976) (44)
From Vicious Circle to Infinite Regress, and Back Again (1992) (40)
Rational Belief and the Common Cause Principle (1982) (37)
Quantum mechanics (1991) (36)
Representation: The Problem for Structuralism (2006) (36)
The Completeness of Free Logic (1966) (36)
Probabilistic semantics objectified: I. postulates and logics (1981) (33)
Armstrong, Cartwright, and Earman on Laws and Symmetry (1993) (32)
Replies to discussion on the empirical (2004) (32)
Science as Representation: Flouting the Criteria (2004) (31)
«World» is not a count noun (1995) (29)
On Free Description Theory (1967) (29)
Theory Construction and Experiment: An Empiricist View (1980) (29)
Existence and Explanation (1991) (28)
Meaning Relations and Modalities (1969) (27)
Physics and our view of the world: Interpretation of science; science as interpretation (1994) (26)
Interpretation in Science and in the Arts (1993) (26)
Salmon on Explanation (1985) (25)
Physics and our view of the world: The world of empiricism (1994) (25)
On stance and rationality (2009) (25)
The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox (1974) (25)
Against Transcendental Empiricism (1994) (24)
CONDITIONALIZATION, A NEW ARGUMENT FOR (1999) (23)
Modeling and Measurement: The Criterion of Empirical Grounding (2012) (22)
Towards a New Epistemology (1989) (22)
Précis of The Empirical Stance (2004) (22)
The Pragmatic Theory of Explanation (1980) (21)
How to talk about unobservables (2008) (21)
Vague Expectation Value Loss (2006) (21)
Meaning Relations, Possible Objects, and Possible Worlds (1970) (21)
A Re-examination of Aristotle's Philosophy of Science (1980) (20)
Arguments Concerning Scientific Realism (1980) (20)
Identity over time: Objectively, subjectively (2007) (18)
II—Bas C. van Fraassen: Structuralism(s) about Science: Some Common Problems (2007) (18)
Relative frequencies (2004) (18)
Derivation and Counterexample: An Introduction to Philosophical Logic (1972) (17)
Misdirection and Misconception in the Scientific Realism Debates (2017) (17)
Transcendence of the Ego (The Non-Existent Knight) (2004) (16)
On McMullin’s Appreciation of Realism Concerning the Sciences (2003) (16)
Aim and Structure of Scientific Theories (1986) (15)
A Semantic Analysis of Niels Bohr’s Philosophy of Quantum Theory (1976) (15)
Armstrong on laws and probabilities (1987) (14)
On carnap and popper probability functions (1979) (14)
Prepositional attitudes in weak pragmatics (1979) (14)
The Manifest Image and the Scientific Image (1999) (13)
On the Radical Incompleteness of the Manifest Image (1976) (12)
Reply to Contessa, Ghins, and Healey (2010) (12)
Logic, Bivalence and Denotation (1986) (12)
The physics and metaphysics of identity and individuality (2011) (12)
Scientific representation: A long journey from pragmatics to pragmatics (2010) (11)
Existence and Explanation Essays Presented in Honor of Karel Lambert (1991) (11)
Sola Experientia?--Feyerabend's Refutation of Classical Empiricism (1997) (11)
Elgin on Lewis’s Putnam’s Paradox (1997) (11)
Quantification as an act of mind (1982) (10)
Probabilistic semantics objectified: II. Implication in probabilistic model sets (1981) (10)
Wilfrid Sellars on Scientific Realism (1975) (10)
A demonstration of the Jeffrey conditionalization rule (1986) (9)
Gentlemen's wagers: Relevant logic and probability (1983) (9)
The Experimental Side of Modeling (2018) (9)
Logical Structure In Plato's Sophist (1969) (9)
A Philosophical Approach to Foundations of Science (1995) (8)
7. The Day of the Dolphins: Puzzling over Epistemic Partnership (2005) (8)
Thomason’s Paradox for Belief, and Two Consequence Relations (2011) (8)
Can Empiricism Leave Its Realism Behind? Toward a Dialogue with Transcendentalists (2009) (8)
Conventionality in the Axiomatic Foundations of the Special Theory of Relativity (1969) (8)
Inference and self-reference (1970) (8)
What is Scientific Realism (2018) (8)
Updating Probability: Tracking Statistics as Criterion (2016) (7)
Hidden variables and the modal interpretation of quantum theory (1979) (7)
On Massey's Explication of Grünbaum's Conception of Metric (1969) (7)
EPR: When Is a Correlation not a Mystery? (1991) (7)
Incomplete Assertion and Belnap Connectives (1975) (7)
Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist Approach (1995) (6)
The Formal Representation of Physical Quantities (1974) (6)
Bressan and Suppes on Modality (1972) (6)
Indifference: The Symmetries of Probability (1989) (6)
Comments: Lakoff’s Fuzzy Propositional Logic (1975) (6)
On the Question of Identification of a Scientific Theory (A Reply to "Van Fraassen's Concept of Empirical Theory" by Pérez Ransanz) (1985) (6)
THE PROBLEM OF OLD EVIDENCE (1988) (6)
A Topological Proof of the Löwenheim‐Skolem, Compactness, and Strong Completeness Theorems for Free Logic (1968) (6)
Earman on the causal theory of time (1972) (5)
How is Scientific Revolution / Conversion Possible? (1999) (5)
Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (1991) (5)
REPLIES TO THE PAPERS (2006) (5)
How to talk about unobservables.: Dedicted to the memory of ), a spirited philosopher of science who left this world too early (2008) (5)
On (The X) (X = Lambert) (1991) (4)
Michel Ghins on the Empirical Versus the Theoretical (2005) (4)
Theoretical entities: The five ways (1974) (4)
Logic of a Self-Transparent Believer (2020) (4)
REPLY TO CHAKRAVARTTY , JAUERNIG , AND McMULLIN (2004) (4)
Representation Of, Representation As (2008) (4)
Elements of reality: A dialogue (1997) (4)
A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England by Steven Shapin (review) (2019) (3)
The Criterion of Empirical Grounding in the Sciences (2014) (3)
Modal Interpretation of Repeated Measurement: A Rejoinder to Leeds and Healey (1997) (3)
Shafer on conditional probability (1983) (3)
Review of Brian Ellis, Rational Belief Systems (1980) (3)
The Art of Representation (2019) (3)
WEYL’S PARADOX: THE DISTANCE BETWEEN STRUCTURE AND PERSPECTIVE (2006) (3)
The Geometry of Opinion: Jeffrey Shifts and Linear Operators (1992) (3)
Assumptions and Interpretations of Quantum Logic (1981) (2)
Science, Probability, and the Proposition (1994) (2)
Report on Tense Logic (1981) (2)
Universals: Laws Grounded in Nature (1989) (2)
Précis of Laws and Symmetry (1993) (2)
On Taking Stances: An interview with Bas van Fraassen (2005) (2)
Ladyman , Lipton , and Teller on The Empirical Stance (2004) (2)
Symmetries of Probability Kinematics (1993) (2)
Relevance-Based Partition Semantics for Why-Questions (2010) (1)
Critique of the Standard Interpretation (1991) (1)
A note on Bacon's alternative to Russell (1967) (1)
Interpretations of QM with Applications for Formal Epistemology (2016) (1)
To Save the Phenomena 1 (1980) (1)
Introduction to the Semantic Approach (1989) (1)
Symmetry Arguments in Science and Metaphysics (1989) (1)
The Empirical Basis of Quantum Theory (1991) (1)
How Can We Understand Transcendence of the Ego? (2019) (1)
Book Reviews (2004) (1)
SCIENTIFIC REALISM AND THE EMPIRICIST CHALLENGE: AN INTRODUCTION TO ERNAN MCMULLIN'S AQUINAS LECTURE (2013) (1)
The Problem of Coordination (2008) (1)
Empiricism and Scientific Methodology (1980) (1)
The Link Between Probability Functions and Logical Consequence (1997) (1)
One hundred and fifty years of philosophy (2006) (1)
New Probability Models and Their Logic (1991) (1)
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (1968) (1)
Reply to Belot, Elgin, and Horsten (2010) (1)
Values, Choices, and Epistemic Stances (2014) (0)
Representation and perspective in science (2007) (0)
An Empiricist Structuralism (2008) (0)
Frequency and the myth of probability (1998) (0)
Explanation through representation, and its limits (2012) (0)
Calendar of Events (2008) (0)
Book Review:The Logical Structure of the World & Pseudo-Problems in Philosophy Rudolf Carnap, Rolf A. George (1968) (0)
What Was Perrin's Real Achievement? (2011) (0)
Introduction: The ‘Picture Theory of Science’ (2008) (0)
Readings On Laws Of Nature (2004) (0)
Appendix B. A History of the Name ‘‘Empiricism’’ (2017) (0)
12. To Save the Phenomena (1984) (0)
From the Bildtheorie of Science to Paradox (2008) (0)
Editorial (1972) (0)
Representation and Realism : On Being a Structuralist (2019) (0)
Epistemic semantics defended (1982) (0)
Inference to the Best Explanation: Salvation by Laws? (1989) (0)
Logic and the Self: After Certain Crises in Western Thought (2011) (0)
Rejecting the Appearance from Reality Criterion (2008) (0)
The Basic Theory of Quantum Mechanics (1991) (0)
1. Preface Preface (pp. i-ii) (2006) (0)
Gentle Polemics 1 (1980) (0)
The Longest Journey: Bertrand Russell (2008) (0)
Appendix C. Bultmann’s Theology Is Not a Philosophy (2017) (0)
Notes and Announcements (1992) (0)
Identical Particles: Individuation and Modality (1991) (0)
Measurement as Representation: 1. The Physical Correlate (2008) (0)
What Are Laws of Nature (1989) (0)
Lecture 2. What Is Empiricism and What Could It Be (2017) (0)
Probabilité conditionnelle et certitude (1997) (0)
BOOK REVIEW: Interpreting the Quantum World by Jeffrey Bub (1998) (0)
Carnap's Lost World and Putnam's Paradox (2008) (0)
Smiley Timothy. Sense without denotation. Analysis (Oxford), n.s. no. 78 (1960), pp. 125–135. (1972) (0)
Studies in Ontology Essays (1978) (0)
Comments on Peter Roeper's “The Link Between Probability Functions and Logical Consequence” (1997) (0)
Sloughs of despond, mountains of joy (2008) (0)
Book review (1999) (0)
Lecture 3. Scientific Revolution/Conversion as a Philosophical Problem (2017) (0)
10. Can Philosophy Offer Help in Resolving Contemporary Biological Controversies (2006) (0)
Philosophical Perspectives on Infinity—Graham Oppy (2008) (0)
What Is Science (1991) (0)
Anderson, W. The Cultivation of Whiteness (Anderson, Crotty, Garton, and Turnbull) 153 Abir-Am, P. and Elliott, C.(eds) Commemorative Practices in Sciences Osiris Vol. 14 (notice-NR) 139 (2003) (0)
INTRODUCTION:: The Changing Debates about Measurement (2018) (0)
Measurement as Representation: 2. Information (2008) (0)
Precis of Scientific representation: paradoxes of perspective (2010) (0)
Symmetries Guiding Modern Science 1 (1989) (0)
A Window on the Invisible World ( (2008) (0)
Composite Systems, Interaction, and Measurement (1991) (0)
Pictorial Perspective and the Indexical (2008) (0)
JSL volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter and Errata (1984) (0)
The Problem of ‘ Implicit ’ Definability (2010) (0)
Rescher on Explanation and Prediction (2008) (0)
JSL volume 50 issue 4 Cover and Back matter and Errata (1985) (0)
Ideal Science: David Lewis's Account of Laws 1 (1989) (0)
Imaging, Picturing, and Scaling (2008) (0)
Leibniz's Philosophy of Logic and Language. By Hide Ishiguro. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1972. Pp. viii, 157. $8.50. (1974) (0)
Review: Timothy Smiley, Sense Without Denotation (1972) (0)
Appearance vs. Reality in the Sciences (2008) (0)
Indeterminism and Probability (1991) (0)
Probability: The New Modality of Science (1980) (0)
What is classical logic ? (2022) (0)
Reflections on a classic in scientific realism, 20 years later (2019) (0)
We need to be clear about the structure of evolutionary theory before proceeding to criticize the various appeals to it. Its main frames are the tree of life and the principle of natural selection (Sober, 1993: (2016) (0)
Objectivity, invariance, and convention: Symmetry in physical science (2009) (0)
What if There Are No Laws? a Manifesto (1989) (0)
Necessity, Worlds, and Chance (1989) (0)
Otte on Hypotheses in Science and Religion (2012) (0)
Boghossian, P., 1 Fine, A., 107 Grimm, SR, 171 Guleserian, T., 293 (2001) (0)
The Problem of Identical Particles (1991) (0)
On Association for the Foundation of Science, Language and Cognition, AFOS; some history and some recent developments (1997) (0)

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