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Barry Loewer PI for Investigating Philosophy of Cosmology
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| Education |
| B.A., Amherst College; Ph.D., Stanford University |
| Speciality |
| Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Philosophy Logic |
| Research and Professional Activities |
| My research is mostly in the metaphysical foundations of science,philosophy of physics, philosophical logic, and philosophy of mind. I am writing a book defending a broadly Lewisian conception of laws, chances, counterfactuals and causation. I am also working on the foundations of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, specifically on how objective probability figures in these theories. In philosophical logic I am working out probabilistic accounts of subjunctive and indicative conditionals. In philosophy of mind I have applied my somewhat deflated accounts of causation to the problem of mental causation. |
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