Bas C. van Fraassen

Empiricism

Selected Papers

• "On the Radical Incompleteness of the Manifest Image (Comments on Sellars)", pp. 335-343 in F. Suppe and P. Asquith, eds., PSA 1976, Volume II (Philosophy of Science Association, East Lansing, 1977), pp. 335-343.
• "Empiricism in the Philosophy of Science" pp. 245-308 in P.M. Churchland and C.A. Hooker (eds.) Images of Science: Essays on Realism and Empiricism, with a Reply by Bas C. van Fraassen. University of Chicago Press, 1985.
• "Probabilities in physics: an empiricist view", pp. 339-347 in P. Weingartner and G. Schurz (eds.) Philosophy of the Natural Sciences, Vienna: Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1989 (proceedings of the XIIIth Wittgenstein Conference, Kirchberg 1988).
• "Despues del fundacionismo: entre el carculo vicioso y el regresso al infinito", Di&noia 38 (1992), 217-240. ("After foundationalism: between vicious circle and infinite regress", Proceedings of the XI Simposio de Filosofaa del Instituto de Investigaciones Filos 1992.) [note: this appeared in 1993; it overlaps 3/4 of item 124.]
• "From Vicious Circle to Infinite Regress and Back Again" (1993)
• "Gideon Rosen on constructive empiricism", Philos. Studies 74 (1994), 179-192.
• "Against Transcendental Empiricism", in T. J. Stapledon (ed.) The Question of Hermeneutics. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1994.
• "Against Transcendental Empiricism" (1994)
• "The World of Empiricism", pp. 114-134 in Jan Hilgevoort (ed.) Physics and Our View of the World. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• "Against Naturalized Empiricism", pp. 68-88 in P. Leonardi and M. Santambrogio (eds.) On Quine. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995.
• "Against Naturalized Empiricism" (1995)
• "Structure and perspective: philosophical perplexity and paradox", pp. 511-530 in M. L. Dalla Chiara et al. (eds.) Logic and Scientific Methods. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997.
• "Sola experientia? Feyerabend's Refutation of Classical Empiricism", Philosophy of Science 64 (1997), S385-S395.
• "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
• "La fin de l'empirisme?" Revue Philosophique de Louvain 98 (2000), 449-479.
• "Michel Ghins on the empirical vs. the theoretical", Foundations of Physics 30 (2000), 1655-1661.
• "Constructive Empiricism Now" (2001) Philosophical Studies, 106 (2001), pp. 151-170.
• "Constructive Empiricism Now", Philosophical Studies 106 (2001), pp. 151-170.
• The Empirical Stance (2002)
  • Synopsis of the book -- for Philosophical Studies book symposium.
  • Reply to Ladyman, Lipton, and Teller -- for Philosophical Studies book symposium.
  • Reply to Chakravarrty, Jauernig, and McMullin -- from APA Pacific Division 2004 symposium.
• "Constructive Empiricism and Modal Nominalism" (2003) with Bradley Monton, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 54 (2003): 405-422.
• "On McMullin's Appreciation of Realism Concerning the Sciences", Philosophy of Science 70 (2003), 479-492.
• "Constructive Empiricism and Modal Nominalism" (with Bradley Monton), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 54 (2003), pp. 405-422.
• "How to talk about unobservables" with F.A. Muller, Analysis 68 (2008), 197 - 205.