Jonathan Bain Humanities and Social Sciences Polytechnic Institute of New York University

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Home Courses CV Papers Links	I am an associate professor of philosophy of science 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.
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	Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Polytechnic Institute of New York University 6 MetroTech Center Brooklyn, NY  11201 (718) 260-3688 jbain "at" duke.poly.deletethis.edu