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en-wikipedia-org-5009		Bas van Fraassen - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2647	460	52	Bastiaan Cornelis van Fraassen (/væn ˈfrɑːsən/; born 1941) is a Dutch-American philosopher noted for his seminal contributions to philosophy of science and epistemology. He previously taught at Yale University, the University of Southern California, the University of Toronto and, from 1982 to 2008, at Princeton University, where he is now emeritus.[7] Since 2008, van Fraassen has taught at San Francisco State University, where he teaches courses in the philosophy of science, philosophical logic, and the role of modeling in scientific practice.[8][9] Before van Fraassen's The Scientific Image, some philosophers had viewed scientific anti-realism as dead, because logical positivism was dead. He rejects the notion that the aim of science is to produce an account of the physical world that is literally true and instead maintains that its aim is to produce theories that are empirically adequate.[16] Van Fraassen has also studied the philosophy of quantum mechanics, philosophical logic, and Bayesian epistemology.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5009.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5009.txt