Bas C. van Fraassen

Metaphysics

Selected Papers

• "Platonism's Pyrrhic Victory", in A.L. Anderson, et al. (eds.), The Logical Enterprise (New Haven: Yale University Press 1975), pp. 39-50.
• "The Only Necessity is Verbal Necessity", Journal of Philosophy 74 (1977), pp. 71-85.
• "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.
• "Essence and Existence", American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph Series No. 12 (1978).
• "Essences and Laws of Nature", in R. Healey (ed.), Reduction, Time and Reality, Cambridge University Press (1981), pp. 189-200.
• "Sulla realta' degli enti matematici" pp. 90-110 in Proceedings of the Conference on Levels of Reality, Florence 1978: M.Piatelli-Palmerini (ed.) Livelli di Realta'. Milano: Feltrinelli, 1984.
• "Que son las leyes de la naturaleza?", Dianoia 31 (1985), pp. 211-262 (appeared in 1986).
• "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.
• "Armstrong on Laws and Probabilities", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 65 (1987), 243-260.
• "Symmetry Arguments in Science and Metaphysics", pp. 385-409 in W. Deppert (ed.), Exact Sciences and Their Philosophical Foundations (Frankfurt: Verlag Peter Lang, 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.
• "Armstrong, Cartwright, and Earman on Laws and Symmetry", Phenomenology and Philosophical Research, 53 (1993), 431-444.
• "From Vicious Circle to Infinite Regress and Back Again" (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.
• "'World' is not a count noun", Nous 29 (1995), 139-157.
• "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.
• "'World' is not a count noun" (1995)
• "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.
• "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.
• "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.
• "Putnam's Paradox: Metaphysics Revamped and Evaded" (1997).
• "The Manifest Image and the Scientific Image" (1999).
• "The Manifest Image and the Scientific Image" (1999)
• "One Hundred and Fifty Years of Philosophy" (a satire) Topoi (2006), 123 - 127.
• "Representation: the Problem for Structuralism" Philosophy of Science 73 (2006), pp. 536-547.
• "Identity over time: objective, subjective", (with I. Peschard), published in Philosophical Quarterly, 2008.