Maudlin, Tim
Tim MaudlinTim W. Maudlin
Professor II

Contact Information
Office:Seminary 3 - 303
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Phone:(732) 932-9861

Education
B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Speciality
Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics
Research
Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Books
  • The Metaphysics Within Physics; Oxford University Press, 2007
  • Truth and Paradox: Solving the Riddles; Oxford University Press, 2004
  • Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity: Metaphysical Intimations of Modern Physics; Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1994; Second Edition, 2002
Articles
  • "Completeness, Supervenience and Ontology" in The Quantum Universe, a special edition of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 (2007) 3151-3171.
  • "The Message of the Quantum?", with M. Daumer, D. Dürr, S. Goldstein, R. Tumulka, and N. Zanghì, in Quantum Mechanics: Are there Quantum Jumps? and On the Present Status of Quantum Mechanics, edited by A. Bassi, D. Dürr, T. Weber and N. Zanghì, AIP Conference Proceedings 844, 129-132 (American Institute of Physics, 2006), quant-ph/0604173.
  • Abstract of Truth and Paradox with replies to comments by Hartry Field, Anil Gupta, and Nuel Belnap, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Nov. 2006, 696-704 and 728-739.
  • "What Could Be Objective About Probabilities?" Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38, 275-91, with a longer version to be published in Probabilities in Physics, edited by Stephan Hartmann and Roman Frigg.
  • "Non-Local Correlations in Quantum Theory: Some Ways the Trick Might be Done", Einstein, Relativity, and Absolute Simultaneity, ed. Quentin Smith and William Lane Craig, Routledge (2007) pp. 186-209.
  • "Relativity", "Quantum Logic and Probability", "Gauge Theory", "Non-Locality" and "Quantum Mechanics" articles for the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Donald Borchert, Thompson Gale (2006).
  • "Causes, Counterfactuals and the Third Factor" in Causes and Counterfactuals edited by N. Hall, L. Paul and J. Collins, MIT Press, 2004, pp. 419-443.
  • "Thoroughly Muddled McTaggart or How to Abuse Gauge freedom to Generate Metaphysical Monstrosities" Philosopher's Imprint, vol. 2, #4 August 2002 (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=phimp;cc=phimp;rgn=main;view=toc;idno=3521354.0002.004).
  • "Distilling Metaphysics from Quantum Physics", The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics, edited by Michael Loux and Dean Zimmerman, Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 461-487.
  • "The Tale of Quantum Logic", in Hilary Putnam edited by Yemima Ben Menahem, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 156-187.
  • "Time Travel and Modern Physics" (With Frank Arntzenius), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu), republished in Time, Reality and Experience edited by C. Callender, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  • "Remarks on the Passing of Time", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society volume CII (part 3), pp. 237-252.
  • "Dickson on Quantum Chance and Non-locality", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51, December 2001, pp. 875-882.
  • "Interpreting Probabilities: What's interference got to do with it?", in Chance in Physics, edited by J. Bricmont, D. Dürr, M.C. Galvotti, G. Ghiardi, F. Petruccione, and N. Zanghì, Springer-Verlag Heidleberg 2001.
  • "The Element of Surprise: Novelty and Realism" (critical notice of Jarrett Leplin's A Novel Defense of Scientific Realism) Philosophical Books 1999, pp. 81-86.
  • "Discussion: Healey on the Aharonov-Bohm Effect", Philosophy of Science 65 #2 (June 1998) pp. 361-368.
  • "Part and Whole in Quantum Mechanics" in Interpreting Bodies: Classical and Quantum Objects in Modern Physics, E. Castellani ed., (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), pp. 46-60. Reprinted in Philosophy of Science: An Anthology, edited by Mark Lange, Oxford,Blackwell Publishing 2007, pp. 634-642.
  • "Descrying the World in the Wavefunction" The Monist 80, pp. 2-23 (January 1997).
  • "On the Impossibility of Lewis's Modal Realism" Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74, pp. 669-682 (December 1996).
  • "On the Unification of Physics" Journal of Philosophy 93, pp. 129-144 (March 1996).
  • "Kuhn édenté: incommensurabilité et choix entre théories" (Kuhn Defanged: Incommensuarability and Theory Choice) Revue Philosophique de Louvain 94, pp. 428-446 (August, 1996).
  • "Space-Time in the Quantum World", in Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory: An Appraisal, J. Cushing, A. Fine and S. Goldstein eds. (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1996) pp. 285-307.
  • "Between the Motion and the Act", Psyche 2:40-51.
  • "Why Bohm's Theory Solves the Measurement Problem" Philosophy of Science 62, pp. 479-483 (September, 1995).
  • "Three Measurement Problems" Topoi 14, pp. 7-15 (March 1995).
  • "The Irrelevance of Incommensurability", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 26, pp. 113-120 (February, 1995).
  • "The Unbuttoned Empiricist: van Fraassen Speculates on the Quantum World" (critical notice of Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist View), Philosophical Books 35, pp. 94-101 (April 1994).
  • "Buckets of Water and Waves of Space: Why Space-Time is Probably a Substance", Philosophy of Science 60, pp. 183-203 (June 1993).
  • "Bell's Inequality, Information Transmission and Prism Models", In D. Hull, M. Forbes, and K. Okruhlik (eds) PSA 1992, vol. 1, East Lansing: Philosophy of Science Association, pp. 404-17.
  • "Time Travel and Topology", Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association Meeting, 1990, vol. 1, pp. 304-15.
  • "Substances and Space-Time: What Aristotle Would Have Said to Einstein", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 531-561
    -(also published in Biologie, Logique et Metaphysique chez Aristote, (ed. D. Devereux and P. Pellgrin) Paris: editions du CNRS, 1990).
  • "Computation and Consciousness", Journal of Philosophy 86, pp. 407-432.
  • "A Model of Classical Space-Times", The Physics Teacher 27, no. 7, pp. 540-544.
  • "The Essence of Space-Time", Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association Meetings, 1988, vol. 2, pp. 82-91.
  • "Keeping Body and Soul Together: the Z.3 Puzzle and the Unity of Substances", The Dayton Review 19, no. 3, Winter 1988-89, pp. 121-133 (This is the first section of "Substances and Space-Time", listed above..
  • "The Structure of Skepticism", Ancient Philosophy VI, pp. 177-193.
  • "De Anima 3.1: Is Any Sense Missing?", Phronesis XXXI.1, pp. 51-67..
Reviews
  • Review of Truth and Realism, edited by P. Greenough and M. Lynch, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, June 18, 2007.
  • Review of Rob Clifton's Quantum Entanglements, edited by J. Butterfield and H. Halvorsen, Mind 115, number 460, pp. 1111-1120 (October 2006).
  • Review of David Bohm and Basil Hiley's The Undivided Universe, Philosophical Books 36, pp. 281-83 (October 1995).
  • Review of James Cushing's Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Interpretation, American Journal of Physics 63, pp. 1155-56 (December 1995).
  • Review of Lawrence Sklar's Physics and Chance and Philosophy of Physics, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46, pp. 145-49 (March 1995).
  • Review of Nancy Cartwright's Nature's Capacities and their Measurement, Journal of Philosophy XC, pp. 599-603 (November 1993).
  • Review of David Armstrong's A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility, Philosophy of Science 59, pp. 716-718 (December 1992).
  • Review of Deborah Modrak's Aristotle: The Power of Perception, The Philosophical Review, XCIX, no. 2, pp. 305-309.


 
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