Bas C. van Fraassen

Art, Literature, and Religion

Selected Papers

• "Values and the Heart's Command", Journal of Philosophy 70 (1973), 5-19.
• "The Peculiar Effects of Love and Desire", pp. 123-156 in Perspectives on Self-Deception. ed. A. Rorty and B. McLaughlin (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988).
• "Time in physical and narrative structure", pp. 19-37 in J. Bender and D. E. Wellbery (eds.) Chronotypes: The Construction of Time. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991.
• "Three-sided scholarship: Comments on the paper of John R. Donahue, S.J.", pp. 315-325 in E. Stump and T. P. Flint (eds.), Hermes and Athena: Biblical Exegesis and Philosophical Theology. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993.
• "Interpretation in Science and in the Arts" (with Jill Sigman), pp. 73-99 in G. Levine (ed.) Realism and Representation. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.
• "The World of Empiricism", pp. 114-134 in Jan Hilgevoort (ed.) Physics and Our View of the World. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• "Science, Materialism, and False Consciousness", pp. 149-181 in Jonathan Kvanvig (ed.) Warrant in Contemporary Epistemology: Essays in Honor of Alvin Plantinga's Theory of Knowledge. Rowman Littlefield, 1996.
• "Haldane on the Past and Future of [Catholic] Philosophy", New Blackfriars 80 (1999), 177-181.
• "Literate Experience: The [De-, Re-] Construction of Nature", Versus 85/86/87 (2000), 331-358.
• "The Theory of Tragedy and of Science: Does Nature Have Narrative Structure?", pp. 31-59 in D. Sfendoni-Mentzou (ed.) Aristotle and Contemporary Science, vol 1. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.
• "The sham victory of abstraction" (Review of Feyerabend, Conquest of Abundance), Times Literary Supplement 5073: June 23, 2000, 10-11.
• "Transcendence of the Ego: The Non-Existent Knight", Ratio (new series) XVII (2004), 453-477.
• "One Hundred and Fifty Years of Philosophy" (a satire), Topoi (2006): 123-127.
• "Sloughs Of Despond, Mountains Of Joy", Critical Quarterly 50: 4 (Dec. 2008), 74-87.