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The Scientific Image, Oxford University Press 1980.
Bas van Fraassen defines constructive empiricism “science aims to give us theories which are empirically adequate; and acceptance of a theory involves as belief only that
it is empirically adequate”
Realism is the acceptance that non-observable phenomena exist.
Anti-realism is that a theory should never be regarded as true.
Constructive empiricism agrees that theories should not aim for truth about unobservable, we should limit ourselves to what we can observe. -
The Empirical Stance, Yale University Press, 2002.
Bas van Fraassen addresses empiricism and religion, and what it means so be secular, and the relation to science. -
Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective, OUP, 2008.
Bas van Fraassen describes natural phenomena as theories through pictures, graphs and models. He then presents these as representations for twentieth-century science to see what comes to light.