Bas van Fraassen

Bastiaan Cornelis van Fraassen (born 5 April 1941) is a Dutch-American philosopher noted for his contributions to philosophy of science, epistemology and formal logic. He is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University and the McCosh Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton University Quotes I claim that the success of current scientific theories is no miracle. It is not even surprising to the scientific (Darwinist) mind. For any scientific theory is born into a life of fierce competition, a jungle red in tooth and claw. Only the successful theories survive—the ones which in fact latched onto the actual regularities in nature. The Scientific Image (1980), p. 40. External links Category:Philosophers from the Netherlands Category:Academics from the Netherlands Category:Philosophers from the United States Category:Academics from the United States Category:Living people Category:1941 births Category:Princeton University faculty