# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bas-van-fraassen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:24:17.765Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bas-van-fraassen"
name: "Bas van Fraassen"
slug: "bas-van-fraassen"
description: "Bastiaan Cornelis \"Bas\" van Fraassen 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."
tagline: "American philosopher"
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birthDate: "1941-04-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           17.06732
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump