摘要:Bas van Fraassen is McCosh Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. His research interests straddle philosophical logic and philosophy of science, with special interests in empiricism, (anti-)realism, probability, foundations of relativity and quantum physics, religion, and philosophy of literature. His publications include The Scientific Image (Oxford 1980), Laws and Symmetry (Oxford 1989), Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist View (Oxford 1991), and The Empirical Stance (Yale 2002). For CV, cat and climbing lore see his website: http://www.princeton.edu/~fraassen/. Interviewed by Kyle Jackson, Chief Editor.Special thanks to Chloe Armstrong for her invaluableassistance in the formulation and editing of the interviewquestions.