Individuals Across the Sciences
Edited by Alexandre Guay and Thomas Pradeu
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Edited by Alexandre Guay, Professor of Philosophy of Natural Sciences and Analytical Philosophy, Universitié catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and Edited by Thomas Pradeu, Full-Time Researcher in Philosophy of Science, CNRS in Bordeaux, France
Alexandre Guay is Professor of Philosophy of Natural Sciences and Analytical Philosophy at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.; Thomas Pradeu is Full-Time Researcher in Philosophy of Science at the CNRS in Bordeaux, France.
Contributors:
Jonas Rafael Becker Arenhart is Professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. His work concerns mainly logical and metaphysical aspects of quantum mechanics.
Alexander Bird is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol. His work deals in particular with Metaphysics and epistemology of science and medicine. He is the author of many papers and books, including Nature's Metaphysics: Laws and Properties (Oxford University Press, 2007), where he argued for a dispositional essentialist account of natural properties and necessitarianism about the laws of nature.
Stéphane Chauvier is Professor of Philosophy at Paris-Sorbonne University. His works in metaphysics deals mainly with the relation between language, thought and reality. He is the author of various papers on the transition from linguistic reference to existence. His latest book in the field (Le Sens du Possible, Vrin, 2010) won the Montyon Prize 2011 of the French Academy.
Ruey-Lin Chen is a Philosophy of Science Professor at National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. His current research interest is in the philosophy of science across physical, biological and experimental cases. He is the author of four books in history and philosophy of science in Chinese. He also published some articles in English.
Christina Conroy is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky. She is currently working on a single-world interpretation of Everettian Quantum Mechanics. She is the author of "The Relative Facts Interpretation and Everett's note added in proof" in Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 43: 112-120, 2012.
Marc Ereshefsky is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. His research focus includes the nature of species, scientific classification, biological taxonomy, natural kinds, individuality, historicity, and homology.
Melinda Bonnie Fagan is Sterling McMurrin Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah, USA. Her research focuses on experimental practice in biology, with particular emphasis on explanation and modeling. She is the author of Philosophy of Stem Cell Biology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) as well as over twenty-five articles and book chapters on topics in philosophy of science and biology.
Steven French is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds and Co-Editor in Chief of The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. He is co-author, with Décio Krause of Identity in Physics (Oxford University Press, 2006) and recently published The Structure of the World (Oxford University Press 2014).
David Glick is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester, USA. His work focuses on structuralism and holism in metaphysics and physics. He received his PhD in 2014 from the University of Arizona. His dissertation, Structures and Objects: A Defense of Structural Realism, was supervised by Richard Healey.
Peter Godfrey-Smith is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. He works in the philosophy of biology and philosophy of mind, and is the author of four books, including Theory and Reality (2003), Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection (2009), and Philosophy of Biology (2014).
Alexandre Guay is professor of philosophy of natural sciences and analytical philosophy at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Most of his research focuses on ontological puzzles in physics. He is the editor in chief of Lato Sensu: revue de la Société de Philosophie des Sciences.
Matt Haber is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Utah, with an adjunct appointment in the Center for Quantitative Biology. His work primarily deals with topics in biological systematics, taxonomy, classification, and phylogenetics.
Basil Hiley is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Birkbeck, London University and Honorary Research Associate of University College, London. His research involves a mathematical study of symplectic and orthogonal Clifford algebras and their applications to foundational questions in quantum phenomena. At present, he is part of a team investigating experimentally the properties of weak measurements on atoms. He is co-author with David Bohm of The Undivided Universe: an Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory and co-editor with David Peat of Quantum Implications: Essays in Honour of David Bohm.
Décio Krause is associate professor of the Department of Philosophy of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. His works deal mainly with the philosophy of logic, analytic ontology, and the foundations of quantum physics. He is author, with Steven French, of Identity in Physics: a Historical, Philosophical, and Formal Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2006), and of several papers dealing with the question of the individuality of quantum objects.
James Ladyman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol. He is co-editor of Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics and was previously co-editor of The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. He is author with Don Ross of Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalised (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Edward Jonathan Lowe was Professor of Philosophy and Director of Postgraduate Studies at the Department of Philosophy at Durham University, United Kindgom. He made critical contributions to metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophical logic, and the history of early modern philosophy. He died prematurely on January 5, 2014, shortly after finishing his contribution to this volume.
Matteo Morganti works at the 'Roma TRE' University of Rome. He teaches and does research in the philosophy of science, and is particularly interested in the interplay between the natural sciences (mainly physics) and analytic metaphysics. He is the author of Combining Science and Metaphysics (Palgrave Macmillan 2013), and of several papers in international journals.
Cédric Paternotte is a postdoctoral fellow at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University (Munich). His research concerns the rational, psychological, epistemic, biological and evolutionary aspects of cooperation. His current topics of interest include social norms, scientific groups, organisms and biological adaptations.
Ilkka Pättiniemi studies theoretical philosophy at the University of Helsinki. He is currently writing a Master's Thesis on the philosophy of Quantum Mechanics.
Makmiller Pedroso is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies at Towson University, USA. His work deals with conceptual issues in evolutionary biology and biological systematics. His articles have appeared in journals such as Synthese,
The Philosophical Quarterly, Biology and Philosophy, and Studies in History and Philosophy of Biology and Biomedical Sciences.
Thomas Pradeu is a full-time researcher at the CNRS in Bordeaux, France. From 2008 to 2014, he was an Associate Professor in the Philosophy department at Paris-Sorbonne University. His work deals mainly with the topic of biological individuality, particularly in immunology and developmental biology. He has published several papers in both science and philosophy journals, and he is the author of The Limits of the Self: Immunology and Biological Identity, Oxford University Press (2012).
Paavo Pylkkänen is senior lecturer in theoretical philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland and the University of Skövde, Sweden. His research areas are philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and the foundations of quantum theory. In particular, he has studied the relevance of Bohm's interpretation of quantum theory to problems in scientific metaphysics. He is the author of Mind, Matter and the Implicate Order, Springer, 2007.
Simon Saunders is Professor of Philosophy of Physics at Oxford University, and fellow of Merton College. His work has focused on the interpretation of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, on structuralism in philosophy of science, and most recently on identity, particle-indistinguishability, and space-time symmetries. He is co-editor of Many Worlds? Everett, quantum theory, and reality (OUP 2010).
