Bas C. van Fraassen

Logic and Semantics

Selected Papers

• Logic and the Philosophy of Science (penultimate draft; publ. Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 27 (2011), #2)
• Elgin on Lewis' Putnam's Paradox (1997)
• Extension, Intension, and Comprehension, in Logic and Ontology, ed. M. Munitz (1973)
• Facts and Tautological Entailment (1969) (Acrobat Version)
• Gentlemen's Wagers: Relevant Logic and Probability (1983). Acrobat version
• Identity in Intensional Logic: Subjective Semantics (1986) (Acrobat version)
• The Logic of Conditional Obligation (1972), Acrobat version
• On (Ix)(x = Lambert) (1991) This is about my teacher Karel Lambert's free description theory, with fond reminiscences of how I became a philosopher
• Probabilistic Semantics Objectified, I (1981) (Acrobat version)
• Putnam's Paradox: Metaphysics Revamped and Evaded (1997)
• Values and the Heart's Command Journal of Philosophy 70 (1973), 5-19

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Logic of Conditionals

• Hidden Variables in Conditional Logic, Theoria 40 (1974), pp. 176-190
• Incompleteness Assertion and Belnap Connectives, Contemporary Research in Philosophical Logic and Linguistic Semantics, ed. D.Hockney and W.Harper (Reidel Publishing Co., 1975), pp. 43-70
• Probabilities of Conditionals, in W. Harper and C.A. Hooker (eds.) Foundations of Probability and Statistics, Volume l (Reidel, 1975), pp. 261-308
• Report on Conditionals, Teorema 6 (1976), pp. 5-25
• A Temporal Framework for Conditionals and Chance, Philosophical Review 89 (1980), pp. 91-108
• Theories and Counterfactuals, in Action, Knowledge and Reality, ed. H.N. Castaneda (Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1975)

Deontic Logic

• The Logic of Conditional Obligation, Journal Philosophical Logic 1 (1972), pp. 417-438
• Values and the Heart's Command, Journal of Philosophy 70 (1973), p. 5-19

Free Logic and Definite Descriptions

• Singular Terms, Truth-Value Gaps and Free Logic, Journal of Philosophy 63 (1966), pp. 481-495
• The Completeness of Free Logic, Zeitschrift fur Mathem. Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik 12 (1966)
• A Note on Bacon's Alternative to Russell, Philosophical Studies 18 (1967), pp. 47-48
• On Free Description Theory (with Karel Lambert), Zeitschrift fur Mathem. Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik 13 (1967), 225-240
• A Topological Proof of the Lowenheim-Skolem, Compactness, and Strong Completeness Theorems for Free Logic, Zeitschrift fur Math. Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik 14 (1968), pp. 245-254
• Presuppositions, Supervaluations, and Free Logic, in K. Lambert (ed.), The Logical Way of Doing Things, New Haven: Yale University Press (1969), pp. 67-91
• On (Ix)(x = Lambert) in W. Spohn, B. van Fraassen, and Brian Skyrms (eds.), Existence and Explanation. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991, pp. 1-18

Modal Logic

• Meaning Relations among Predicates, Nous l (1967), pp. 160-179
• Meaning Relations and Modalities, Nous 3 (1969), pp. 155-167
• Compactness and Lowenheim-Skolem Proofs in Modal Logic, Logique et Analyse 12 (1969), pp. 167-178
• Meaning Relations, Possible Objects, and Possible Worlds (with K. Lambert), in K. Lambert (ed.), Philosophical Problems in Logic (Reidel, 1970), pp. l-20
• Bressan and Suppes on Modality, in K.F. Schaffner and R.S. Cohen (eds.), PSA 1972 (Reidel Publishing Co., 1974)
• The Only Necessity is Verbal Necessity, Journal of Philosophy 74 (1977), pp. 71-85
• Essence and Existence, American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph Series No. 12 (1978)
• Modality, in H. Kyburg (ed.), Current Research in Philosophy of Science (Philosophy of Science Association 1979)

Semantic Paradoxes, Truth

• Truth and Paradoxical Consequences, in R. Martin (ed.), The Paradox of the Liar (New Haven: Yale University Press 1970), pp. 13-23
• Rejoinder: On a Kantian Conception of Language, Ibid., pp. 59-66
• Inference and Self-Reference, Synthese 21 (1970), pp. 425-438
• Elgin on Lewis' Putnam's Paradox, Journal of Philosophy 94 (1997), 85-93
• Putnam's Paradox: Metaphysical Realism Revamped and Evaded, Philosophical Perspectives, vol. 11 (Boston: Blackwell, 1997), pp. 17-42

Probabilities, Probabilistic Semantics

• Probabilities of Conditionals, in W. Harper and C.A. Hooker (eds.) Foundations of Probability and Statistics, Volume l (Reidel, 1975), pp. 261-308
• Representation of Conditional Probabilities, Journal of Philosophical Logic 5 (1976), pp. 417-430
• On Carnap and Popper Probability Functions (with Hughes Leblanc), Journal of Symbolic Logic 44 (1979), pp. 369-373
• Probabilistic Semantics Objectified, I, Journal of Philosophical Logic, 10 (1981), 371-394; Part II, 10(1981), 495-510
• Gentlemen's Wagers: Relevant Logic and Probability, Philosophical Studies 43 (1983), 47-61
• On Characterizing Popper and Carnap Probability Functions (with W. L. Harper and H. Leblanc), in H. Leblanc, R. Gumb, and R. Stern (eds.) Essays in Epistemology and Semantics. New York: Haven Publications, 1984
• Fine-grained opinion, probability, and the logic of belief, Journal of Philosophical Logic, 24 (1995), 349-377
• Frequency and the Myth of Probability, pp. 55-67 in H. Poser and U. Dirks, Hans Reichenbach: Philosophie im Umkreis der Physik. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1998

Quantum Logic

• The Labyrinth of Quantum Logics, Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science 13 (1972), pp. 224-254
• Semantic Analysis of Quantum Logic, pp. 80-113 in C.A. Hooker (ed.), Contemporary Research in the Foundations and Philosophy of Quantum Theory (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1973)
• Assumptions and Interpretations of Quantum Logic, in Current Issues in Quantum Logic (1981) -- see Books, above
• A Semantic Analysis of Bohr's Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (jointly with C.A. Hooker), in Harper, W.L. and C.A. Hooker (eds.), Foundations of Probability and Statistics, Volume 3 (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1975), pp. 222-241

Supervaluations, Truthvalue Gaps

• Singular Terms, Truth-Value Gaps and Free Logic, Journal of Philosophy 63 (1966), pp. 481-495
• Presupposition, Implication, and Self-Reference, Journal of Philosophy 65 (1968), pp. 136-152
• Presuppositions, Supervaluations, and Free Logic, in K. Lambert (ed.), The Logical Way of Doing Things, New Haven: Yale University Press (1969), pp. 67-91
• Truth and Paradoxical Consequences, in R. Martin (ed.), The Paradox of the Liar (New Haven: Yale University Press 1970), pp. 13-23
• Rejoinder: On a Kantian Conception of Language, Ibid., pp. 59-66

Miscellaneous (Relevance, Subjective Semantics, etc.)

• Logical Structure in Plato's Sophist, Metaphysics 22 (1969), pp. 482-498
• Facts and Tautological Entailments, Journal of Philosophy 66 (1969), pp. 477-487
• On the Extension of Beth's Semantics of Physical Theories, Philosophy of Science 37 (1970), pp. 325-334
• Extension, Intension, and Comprehension, Logic and Ontology, ed. M. Munitz (New York University Press, 1973)
• Lakoff's Fuzzy Propositional Logic (location of 38, pp. 273-278)
• Platonism's Pyrrhic Victory, in A.L. Anderson, et al. (eds.), The Logical Enterprise (New Haven: Yale University Press 1975), pp. 39-50
• Propositional Attitudes in Weak Pragmatics, Studia Logica 38 (1979), pp. 365-374
• Quantification as an Act of Mind, Journal of Philosophical Logic 11 (1982), 343-369
• Epistemic Semantics Defended, Journal of Philosophical Logic 11 (1982), 463-464
• Gentlemen's Wagers: Relevant Logic and Probability, Philosophical Studies 43 (1983), 47-61
• The World We Speak Of, and the Language We Live In, pp. 213-221 in Philosophy and Culture: Proc. of the XVII-th World Congress of Philosophy (Montreal, 1983). Montreal: Editions du Beffroi, 1986
• Identity in Intensional Logic: Subjective Semantics, Versus 44/45 (1986), 201-219 (appeared in 1988)