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Fellow, Metaphysics & Philosophy of Physics, Birmingham University, UK
Alastair Wilson is a Fellow in Philosophy at Birmingham University, focusing on research in metaphysics and the philosophy of physics. He also has research interests in epistemology and philosophy of science. Wilson obtained a BA in Physics & Philosophy at Oxford, then the BPhil and a DPhil in Philosophy at Oxford. His doctoral thesis was on the metaphysics of Everettian (many-worlds) quantum mechanics, and he has subsequently worked on laws of nature, chance, properties, causation, counterfactuals, and the epistemology of disagreement and of self-locating beliefs. His current research project is on fundamentality in physics and metaphysics. (More)
Research Assistant Professor in Physics & concurrent Research Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Notre Dame University, USA
Brian Pitts is a philosopher and a physicist, holding a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Notre Dame, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin. (More)
Lecturer, Theoretical Physics, St Andrews University, UK
Chris Hooley obtained a BA in physics and philosophy at Oxford in 1996, and a DPhil in theoretical physics in 1999. He then went to Rutgers University on a Lindemann Fellowship before returning to the UK to hold an EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical Physics at Birmingham. He is now at St Andrews, Scotland. His research interests are centred on the quantum many-body problem (he has worked on frustrated magnetism, ultracold atom gases, nanotechnology the Invar effect, superfluidity, and topological insulators). He also retains an interest in the philosophical questions posed by quantum mechanics, contending that some of them look rather different through the prism of many-body physics than in their usual guises. (More)
Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University, USA
Hans Halvorson is a mathematician, physicist and philosopher, holding master's degrees in Philosophy and Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. At Princeton, Professor Halvorson teaches philosophical logic and philosophy of science, but his interests also extend to metaphysics and philosophy of religion. His current research focuses on the conceptual and mathematical foundations of contemporary physics, especially quantum field theory and quantum information theory. Professor Halvorson has been a short-term Fellow with the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (2006) and Associate Fellow with the Center for the Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He has been the recipient of numerous academic awards and prizes. (More)
Professor of Philosophy, Bristol University, UK
James Ladyman is professor of philosophy and head of the Department of Philosophy in Bristol. His first degree was in pure mathematics and philosophy. He subsequently studied the history and philosophy of science and mathematics. He has been at Bristol since 1997 and specialises in the philosophy of science. He has been honorary secretary of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science and until recently was co-editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. His book Understanding Philosophy of Science won a Choice Outstanding Academic Text award and in 2005 he won the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Philosophy and Ethics. (More)
Professor of Philosophy, Biola, USA
William Lane Craig is a philosopher and a philosophical theologian. He obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Birmingham, England, and a Th.D. (theology) at the University of Munich. He is known for his work in the philosophy of religion, philosophy of time, and philosophical theism, and is notable for reviving interest in the Kalam cosmological argument (an argument for the existence of God with origins in medieval Islamic scholasticism).
Craig has authored or edited over 30 books, including The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz (1980), and Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology (with Quentin Smith, 1993). (More)
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