Philosophy of Science

Members of the Department have varied interests in the philosophy of science, from general philosophy of science to philsoophy of the special sciences, with a special focus on physics and biology. There are regular talks and discussion groups in philosophy of science, and each year the Department hosts an interdisciplinary and international conference in New Directions in the Foundations of Physics.

Faculty in this area

        Jeffrey Bub (Philosophy of Physics, Quantum Mechanics)
        Lindley Darden (History and Philosophy of Biology, Mechanisms)
        Erin Eaker (Scientific Realism and Natural Kinds)
        Mathias Frisch (Philosophy of Physics, Causation, Explanation)
        Allen Stairs (Philosophy of Physics, Quantum Mechanics)

Recent seminars in this area

        Quantum Mechanics and Metaphysics (Stairs, 2009)
         Naming, Necessity, and Natural Kinds (Eaker, 2008)
         Causation (Frisch, 2008)
         Mechanisms and Evolutionary Theory (Darden, 2007)
         Quantum Theory: The Everett Interpretation (Bub, 2007)
         Problems in Metaphysics (Morreau, 2007)
         Science and Values (Frisch, 2006)
         Interpreting the Quantum World (Bub, 2006)
         Laws (Morreau, 2005)