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associate professor of
philosophy
in the Humanities and Social
Sciences Department
at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU's school
of technology and engineering). I received my degree from the History
and Philosophy of Science Department at the University of
Pittsburgh,
and have taught in the Philosophy
Department at the University of
California-Riverside.
My research interests include philosophy of
spacetime, scientific realism, and philosophy of quantum field theory.More specifically, I'm interested in the ontological and metaphysical commitments of theories in contemporary physics; in other words, in how such theories can be interpreted. I'm also interested in the epistemological status of the claims such theories make about the physical world. These interests span the established subject areas of philosophy of spacetime and philosophy of quantum theory, as well as the emerging discussion on philosophy of quantum gravity, and link up with issues in the debate over scientific realism.
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
6 MetroTech Center
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 260-3688
jbain "at" duke.poly.deletethis.edu