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2. Bas Van Fraassen Bas C. van Fraassen. Hilary Putnam s argument against metaphysical realism (commonly referred to as the model theoretic argument ) has now enjoyed two http://webware.princeton.edu/vanfraas/mss/putpara.htm

PUTNAM'S PARADOX: METAPHYSICAL REALISM REVAMPED AND EVADED Bas C. van Fraassen Hilary Putnam's argument against metaphysical realism (commonly referred to as the "model theoretic argument") has now enjoyed two decades of discussion. The text is rich and contains variously construable arguments against variously construed philosophical positions. David Lewis isolated one argument and called it "Putnam's Paradox". That argument is clear and concise; so is the paradoxical conclusion it purports to demonstrate; and so is Lewis' paradox-avoiding solution. His solution involves a position I call "anti-nominalism": not only are classes real, but they are divided into arbitrary and 'natural' classes. The natural classes 'carve nature at the joints', being (as other philosophers might say) the extensions of 'real' properties, universals, or Forms. Thus the argument was turned, in effect, into support for a metaphysical realism stronger than Putnam envisaged. I will offer a different way to look at Putnam's model theoretic argument. If we insist on discussing language solely in terms of a relation between words and things, we may well be forced into a metaphysical realist point of view, on pain of paradox. But on the level of pragmatics, in a discussion of language that also addresses the roles of user and use, the air of paradox dissolves all by itself. I shall also try to show how we can resist Lewis' argument, derived from Putnam's, for anti-nominalism. No metaphysical postulates will be needed to avoid the threatened disasters of self-understanding.

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5. DBLP: Bas C. Van Fraassen Bas C. van Fraassen. List of publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server FAQ 1 Hugues Leblanc, Bas C. van Fraassen On Carnap and Popper http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/f/Fraassen:Bas_C=_van.

Bas C. van Fraassen List of publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server FAQ Coauthor Index - Ask others: ACM DL Guide CiteSeer CSB ... Hugues Leblanc , Bas C. van Fraassen: On Carnap and Popper Probability Functions. J. Symb. Log. 44 Coauthor Index Hugues Leblanc DBLP: [ Home Author Title Conferences ... Michael Ley (ley@uni-trier.de) Fri Jan 25 16:42:33 2008

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8. Dwight H. Terry Lectureship | Bas C. Van Fraassen Bas C. van Fraassen joined Princeton University’s Department of Philosophy in 1982. His interests include philosophy of science (especially subjects related http://www.yale.edu/terrylecture/vanfraassen.html

var thispage="past"; MakeMenus(thispage); BAS C. VAN FRAASSEN The Empirical Stance An Introduction to the Philosophy of Time and Space Formal Semantics and Logic The Scientific Image Laws and Symmetry (1989), and Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist View Born in Goes, the Netherlands, in 1941, Professor van Fraassen immigrated with his family to Canada in 1956. He attended the University of Alberta (B.A.(Hon.), Philosophy, 1963), and the University of Pittsburgh (M.A. 1964; PH.D., Philosophy, 1966). He has taught at Yale University, the University of Toronto, the University of Southern California, and Princeton University. He is editor of the Journal of Philosophical Logic and co-editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. LECTURE SCHEDULE The Empirical Stance October 19, 1999 Against Analytic Metaphysics Audio Stream (part 1) (part 2) October 21, 1999 Empiricism as Will and Idea Audio Stream (part 1) (part 2) October 26, 1999

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Bas van Fraassen From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Bastiaan Cornelis van Fraassen (born Goes , the Netherlands 5 April ) is a member of the Princeton University Philosophy department, currently in phased retirement. He will finish his phased retirement at the end of the 2007-08 academic year and will then take up a tenured post at San Francisco State University . He previously taught at Yale University , the University of Southern California (USC), and the University of Toronto . He coined the term constructive empiricism in his 1980 book The Scientific Image . Van Fraassen earned his B.A. (1963) from the University of Alberta and his M.A. (1964) and Ph.D. (1966, under the direction of Adolf Gr¼nbaum ) from the University of Pittsburgh A philosopher of science , van Fraassen's 1989 book Laws and Symmetry attempted to lay the ground-work for explaining physical phenomena without using the assumption that such phenomena are caused by rules or laws which can be said to cause or govern their behavior. Van Fraassen has also done work on the philosophy of quantum mechanics , philosophical logic, and epistemology.

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The Cat Page Bas van Fraassen For a very dramatic picture, see A Memento to Mori I grew up with a cat and so I know that cats are the most intelligent, graceful, and insightful beings in the Universe. (This is already an example of how we humans can achieve a small measure of wisdom if we live with cats.) My whole family has always been into cats, and since I don't have a cat of my own now, I will tell you about some of theirs. My sister Gina's cat Tuti was remarkable by any measure. This does look an assault on a poor innocent bird in a cage; but appearances are deceptive: the two were friends: The little parakeet in these pictures came to a tragic end, ath the hands of another cat, when she escaped the house last summer. But Gina now has another bird, a little parrot called Nika: Here Nika suddenly noticed that her cage had been occupied while she was traipsing around the room, and she is protesting loudly. The story of Put-Put is a bit more tragic but also has a happy ending. Put-Put was the only survivor of six starving stray kittens, adopted by Kees (my brother) and his wife Barbara. He was so small and pitiful he had to be fed with an eyedropper, but put on weight pretty quickly and flourished till he was about two years old. Then he became ill and died. Eventually his place was taken by Buffy, a lynx-point Siamese ... and Buffy developed the same symptoms as Put-Put .... But here is the happy ending: Kees developed a herbal tonic CatSu , and Buffy was cured..

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20. PhilSci Archive - Structure: Its Shadow And Substance van fraassen, bas C. (1999) Structure its shadow and substance. Deposited By, van fraassen, bas C. Deposited On, 28 April 2002 http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000631/

About Browse Search Register ... Help Structure: its shadow and substance van Fraassen, Bas C. (1999) Structure: its shadow and substance. Full text available as: PDF - Requires a viewer, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader or other PDF viewer. Abstract Keywords: structuralism, structural realism, scientific realism, constructive empiricism, representation Subjects: General Issues Realism/Anti-realism General Issues Structure of Theories ... Theory Change ID Code: Deposited By: van Fraassen, Bas C. Deposited On: 28 April 2002 Alternative Locations: http://webware.princeton.edu/vanfraas/mss/Leiden-Fine.htm Send feedback to: philsci-archive@library.pitt.edu

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