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Works and Worlds of Art
In this book the author treats art as an action performed by the artist as agent, rather than examining it from the point of view of its audience as contemplators.
Without Good Reason
Are humans rational? Various experiments performed over the last several decades have been interpreted as showing that humans are irrational we make significant and consistent …
What is Existence?
A thorough and closely argued examination of a central issue in philosophical logic, an issue which is shown to have profound implications for the philosophy of language and much …
Truth, Fiction, and Literature
This book examines the complex and varied ways in which fictions relate to the real world, and offers a precise account of how imaginative works of literature can use fictional …
The Scientific Image
In this book van Fraassen develops an alternative to scientific realism by constructing and evaluating three mutually reinforcing theories.
The Nature of Necessity
This is a reissue of a book which is an exploration and defence of the notion of modality 'de re', the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. It is one of …
The Diversity of Moral Thinking
This book argues for a radically different approach to traditional and important problems of moral philosophy. The book discusses three theses; the diversity of moralities and …
The Cement of the Universe
Studies causation both as a concept and as it is 'in the objects.' Offers new accounts of the logic of singular causal statements, the form of causal regularities, the detection of …
Slippery Slope Arguments
A `slippery slope argument' is a kind of argument which warns you that, if you take a first step, you will find yourself caught up in a sequence of consequences from which you will …
Simplicity
Attempts to show that the simplicity of a hypothesis can be measured by attending to how well it answers certain kinds of questions.
Sensory Qualities
Many philosophers doubt that one can provide any successful explanation of sensory qualities - of how things look, feel or seem to a perceiving subject. To do so one would need to …
Quality and Concept
The aim of this book is to provide a unified theory of properties, relations, and propositions (PRPs). The author explores the two traditional conceptions of PRPs and shows how …