Bas C. van Fraassen
Miscellaneous Others
Selected Papers
- Review: R. Carnap, The Logical Structure of the World, Philosophy of Science 35(1968), pp. 298-299.
- Review: Hide Ishiguro, Leibniz' Philosophy of Logic and Language. Dialogue 13(1974), pp. 185-189.
- "Critical Notice: Hilary Putnam, Philosophy of Logic", Canadian Journal of Philosophy 4 (1975), pp. 731-743.
- Review: Wilfred Sellars, Essays in Philosophy and its History, Annals of Science 34 (1977), pp. 73-74.
- Review: Wolfgang Stegmuller, Personnelle und Statistische Wahrscheinlichkeit", Philosophy of Science 45 (1978), pp. 158-163.
- "Critical Study: Brian Ellis, Rational Belief Systems", Canadian Journal of Philosophy,10 (1980), 497-511.
- "Critical Study: Paul Churchland, Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind,Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 11 (1981), 555-567.
- Little review of S. Shapin, A Social History of Truth, Common Knowledge 4 (1995), 81-82.
- "Elgin on Lewis' Putnam's Paradox", Journal of Philosophy 94 (1997), 85-93.
- Review: J. Bub, Interpreting the Quantum World. Foundations of Physics 28 (1998), 683-689.
- Response: Haldane on the future of philosophy?, New Blackfriars 80 (1999), 177-181.
- Review of W. V. O. Quine, Pursuit of Truth. Times Literary Supplement, August 10-16, 1990.
- "The sham victory of abstraction" (Review of Feyerabend, Conquest of Abundance), Times Literary Supplement 5073: June 23, 2000, 10-11.
- "Rejoinder: On a Kantian Conception of Language", in R. Martin (ed.), The Paradox of the Liar (New Haven: Yale University Press 1970), pp. 59-66.
- "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.
- "Salmon on Explanation", Journal of Philosophy 82 (1985), pp. 639-651.
- "On the Question of Identification of a Scientific Theory" (Reply to Perez Ransanz), Critica 17 (1985), 21-25.
- "Armstrong, Cartwright, and Earman on Laws and Symmetry", Phenomenology and Philosophical Research, 53 (1993), 431-444.
- "Gideon Rosen on constructive empiricism", Philos. Studies 74 (1994), 179-192.
- (with James Ladyman, Igor Douven, and Leon Horsten) "A Defence of van Fraassen's Critique of Abductive Reasoning: Reply to Psillos", Philosophical Quarterly 47 (1997), 305-321.
- "Modal interpretation of repeated measurement: reply to Leeds and Healey", Philosophy of Science 64 (1997), 669-676.