Bas C. van Fraassen

I am a philosopher, and in recent years I have been preoccupied with two philosophical questions, one about philosophy itself, and one about science, 
"What Is Empiricism, and What Could It Be?" and "What is Scientific Representation?"

I've offered an answer to the first in my The Empirical Stance (2002), and tackled the second inScientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective (2008).

Most of my work as a philosopher has been in philosophy of science and in philosophical logic, but with occasional forays into philosophy of literature and the connections between art, literature, and religion. Like most philosophers (I think) I began with the ambition to arrive at a coherent view of everything -- some day, within my lifetime -- and I am still cherishing that idea ... 

See my website   http://www.princeton.edu/~fraassen/    for information about my writings and personal interests