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EDUCATION:
1998
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Ph.D., History
and Philosophy of
Science, University of Pittsburgh.
Thesis: 'Representations
of
Spacetime: Formalism
and Ontological Commitment'
Committee: John
Earman (co-chair), John D. Norton
(co-chair), Kenneth
Manders, George
A.
J. Sparling. |
| 1996 |
M.S., Physics,
University of
Pittsburgh. |
| 1989 |
B.S. (cum laude), Applied
Mathematics/Physics, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA.
Minor: Philosophy |
| Areas
of Specialization: philosophy
of physics (spacetime, quantum field theory), philosophy of science
(scientific realism). |
| Areas
of Competence: philosophy of science
(explanation, confirmation, laws of nature, etc.), logic (intro, advanced),
social
philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of mathematics, history of
science, Whitehead. |
EMPLOYMENT:
PUBLICATIONS:
Articles:
1.
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'Condensed
Matter Physics and the Nature of Spacetime', in
Dieks, D. (ed.) The Ontology of
Spacetime, Vol. 2 (Elsevier Press, 2008): 301-329.
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| 2. |
'Spacetime
Structuralism', in Dieks, D. (ed.) The Ontology of Spacetime,
Vol. 1 (Elsevier
Press, 2006): 37-66.
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| 3. |
'Theories
of Newtonian Gravity and Empirical Indistinguishability', Studies
in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 35
(2004):
345-376. |
| 4. |
Einstein
Algebras and the Hole Argument', Philosophy
of Science 70
(2003): 1073-1085. |
| 5. |
'What
Should Philosophers of
Science Learn from the History of the Electron?', (with J. D.
Norton) in Buchwald, J. and A. Warwick (eds.), Histories of the
Electron: The Birth of Microphysics, Dibner Institute Studies
in the History of Science and Technology (MIT Press, 2001):
451-465. |
| 6. |
'Against
Particle/Field Duality: Asymptotic
Particle States and Interpolating Fields in Interacting QFT (or: Who's
Afraid of Haag's Theorem?)', Erkenntnis
53 (2000): 375-406. |
| 7. |
'The
Coordinate-Independent 2-component
Spinor Formalism and the Conventionality of Simultaneity', Studies
in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 31
(2000):
201-226.
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| 8. |
'Weinberg
on QFT: Demonstrative
Induction and Underdetermination', Synthese
117 (1999): 1-30. |
| 9. |
'Whitehead's
Theory of Gravity', Studies
in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 29
(1998):
547-574 |
Book Reviews:
10.
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Rickles,
D. (ed.) The Ashgate Companion to
the Philosophy of Physics, forthcoming in Metascience.
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11.
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Healey,
R. Gauging
What's
Real: The Conceptual Foundations of Contemporary Gauge Theories, Philosophy of Science 75,
(2008): 479-485.
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12.
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Arabatzis,
T. Representing Electrons,
in International Studies in
Philosophy of
Science 20, no. 3
(2006): 347-357.
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| 13. |
Hattich,
F., Quantum
Processes: A Whiteheadian Interpretation of Quantum Field Theory,
in Studies in History
and Philosophy of Modern Physics 36, (2005): 680-690. |
| 14. |
Pesic,
P., Seeing
Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature,
in ISIS
93, no. 4 (2002): 670-671. |
| 15. |
Jammer, M., Concepts
of Mass
in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy, in Physics
Today 53, no. 12 (2000): pp. 67-68. |
PRESENTATIONS:
| 1. |
'Motivating
Structural Realist Interpretations of Spacetime', Metaphysics of Science, University
of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, July 2009. |
| 2. |
'Intertheoretic
Implications of Non-relativistic Quantum Field Theories', Philosophy of Quantum Field Theory Workshop,
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, April 2009. |
3.
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'Motivating
Structural Realist Interpretations of Spacetime', Studia Logica International
Conference: Logic and the Foundations of Physics, TrendsVI,
Brussels, Belgium, December 2008.
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4.
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'Quantum
Field Theories in Classical Spacetimes and Particles', Philosophy of
Science Association 2008, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2008.
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5.
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'Quantum
Field Theories in Classical Spacetimes and Particles', British Society for the Philosophy of
Science Conference 2008, St. Andrews, United Kingdom, July 2008.
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6.
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'Relativity
and Quantum Field Theory', 3rd
International Conference on the Ontology of Spacetime, Concordia
University, Montreal, Canada, June 2008.
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7.
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'Condensed
Matter Physics, Emergent Spacetime, and Structural Realism", 15 U.K. and European Meeting on the
Foundations of Physics, Leeds, United Kingdom, March 2007.
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8.
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'Condensed
Matter Physics
and the Nature of Spacetime, 2nd
International Conference on the
Ontology of Spacetime, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada,
June
2006.
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9.
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'Emergent
Spacetime and
Structural Realism', Society for
Exact Philosophy 2006, San Diego, CA,
May 2006.
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| 10. |
'Reductionism
and Emergentism in Contemporary Physics', Othmer Institute for
Interdisciplinary Studies, Polytechnic University, October 2005.
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| 11. |
'Conceptual
Foundations of
Quantum
Information Theory', Othmer Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies,
Polytechnic University, February 2005.
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| 12. |
'Spacetime
Structuralism', 1st International
Conference on the Ontology of Spacetime, Concordia University,
Montreal,
Canada, May 2004. |
| 13. |
‘How
to
be a Semantic Realist With Respect to Yang-Mills Gauge Theories’,
Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, February 2003. |
| 14. |
‘Einstein Algebras and
the Hole
Argument’, Philosophy of Science
Association 2002, Milwaulkee, WI,
November 2002. |
15.
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‘How to be a Semantic
Realist
With Respect to Yang-Mills Gauge Theories’, Probing the Boundaries of Mathematics and
Physics, Department of Mathematics,
University
of Pittsburgh, October 2002.
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| 16. |
‘Philosophy and
Physics:
Tachyons, Causality, and Special Relativity’, Interdisciplinary Physics
Group, Polytechnic University, March 2002. |
| 17. |
‘Weinberg on
QFT:
Demonstrative
Induction and Underdetermination’, Department of Humanities and Social
Sciences,
Polytechnic University, March 1999. |
DRAFTS/PROJECTS:
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