Bas van Fraassen: personal interests

stories

• "The Next Song" (story), The Fiddlehead , Number III (Fall 1976): 33-35.
• "Picture Yourself a Philosopher" (brochure -- with S. Alcalay), USC Graphics, May 1978.
• "Walk to a Dead End" (story), Eros , Summer issue, 1979.
• "St. Xaviera" (story), Poetic License , 1979.
• "The Game" (story), Corona , 1981.
• "La Città Invisibile/The Invisible City", in L. Mazza (ed.), catalogue of the Milan Triennale Exhibition. Milano: Electa S.p.a., 1988.
• "The Tower and the Shadow" (story), included in The Scientific Image
• "A parable" (story), included in Laws and Symmetry

rock climbing and images

Rock climbing is my passion!
Click here for some rock and climbing pictures, and a list of some of my favorite climbs.

You can also take a look at my main climbing partner Ric Otte's impressive climbing page, though that belongs to another order of magnitude in mountaineering, and a list of some philosophers who climb

I was also quite passionate about trapeze for more than ten years, (flying with the greatest of ease, etc -- not all of that applies in my case ...), after starting with the Trapeze Club of New Palz NY, and especially when I had the chance to take lessons at the circus schools in Oakland and San Francisco. But since 2012 I have pretty well let it go, in favor of gym climbing, to augment the rock experience.

hiking

Leaving Roncesvalles

local fauna

I find cats enormously intriguing, since I grew up with one (my childhood companion Pintje) though I don't now have any of my own. But now some dogs, Zoe and Charley & Leo, have entered my life.

(PS: Zoe's full registered name, reflecting her multi-national and multi-cultural environment, is Zoe Grietje Peschard van Fraassen.) Most recent news: Zoe now has a playmate, puppy Emma (full name: Emma Tietje).

A History of Cats in My Family