Barry Loewer
Curriculum Vitae (Spring 2010)
CONTACT INFORMATION
Department of Philosophy
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732-932-9181 x9146
webpage http://rci.rutgers.edu/~loewer/
EDUCATION
Amherst College, BA with honors in Philosophy, Mathematics, and Greek
Stanford University, Ph.D. Philosophy 1975
Dissertation: “Knowledge, Names, and Necessity”
Advisor: J. Hintikka
APPOINTMENTS
Current Positions: Professor II (Distinguished Professor), Chair of Philosophy Dept, and Director of the Rutgers Center for Philosophy and the Sciences, member of the University wide Promotion Committee (PRC), Adjunct Faculty, Rutgers Cognitive Science Ceneter (RICCS).
2005-2006: Senior Fellow, Collegium Budapest
2001-2005: Professor II, Rutgers University and Director of Graduate Studies
1999-2000 Senior Fellow, Collegium Budapest
1989- 2000: Professor I, Rutgers University (also Graduate Director 89-94)
1988-1989 Fellow National Humanities Center (NEH Fellow)
1986-1989: Professor, University of South Carolina
1985-1986: Visiting Professor, University of Michigan
1983-1984: Visiting Associate Professor, Rutgers University
1980-1985: Associate Professor, University of South Carolina
1975-1980: Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
1972-1975: Instructor, University of South Carolina
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Language, and Philosophy of Mind
Editorial Boards:
Synthese, Nous, Philosophy Compass
Fellowships:
NEH summer fellowships 1979,1981,1983, 1988
NSF 1982
National Humanities Fellow 1989-90
Senior fellow Collegium Budapest 1999-2000 and 2005-6
Fulbright fellow 2005
Director of Summer institutes and schools:
Central European University summer school “Descrying the World in Physics” summer 2005 and
“Conditionals” summer 2009.
Current Grants participant ARC Monash and Melbourne Universities 2009-2012
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Physicalism and Its Discontents, with Carl Gillett, Cambridge University Press 2001.
Meaning in Mind: The Philosophy of Jerry Fodor, with Georges Rey, Basil Blackwell 1991.
Philosophy in 30 Seconds Barnes and Noble 2009. (edited and wrote about 1/3)
Minding and Saying (collected papers many co-authored with E.Lepore) Oxford University Press forthcoming in 2010
I was Philosophy of Science Editor for the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2006 (wrote numerous articles for the Encyclopedia)
Papers in Journals (partial list)
“Why Is There Anything Except Physics?” Synthese 2009
“Laws and Properties” forthcoming in Philosophical Topics 2010
“Probability in Physics” to appear in a collection on Philosophy and Probability Cambridge University Press 2010
“Laws and Time” to appear in a collection ed. by Craig Callander On the Nature of Time. Oxford University Press 2010
“Philosophy of Physics” major entry in the McMillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy Second Edition 2006
“Why There Is Anything Except Physics!” On Being Reduced ed. J. Kallestrup. Oxford University Press 2008
“Determinism” chapter in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science ed. Martin Curd and 2007
“Mental Causation or Something Close Enough” for a book in Debates in Philosophy of Mind ed. By McLaughlin and Cohen. Oxford 2007
“Counterfactuals and the Second Law” in Causal Republicanism ed. Huw Price Oxford 2006
“David Lewis’ Theory of Objective Chance” Philosophy of Science Winter 2004
“Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics: Strange Bedfellows” in New Essays on Consciousness ed. Quentin Smith. Oxford University Press. 2004
“Time for Philosophy” The Budapest Review of Books: Summer 2003
“Determinism and Chance” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics Vol. 32, No.4 pp. 609-620
“Bohmian vs. Copenhagen Quantum Mechanics” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 1998 p. 317-328
"Freedom From Physics" in Philosophical Topics, 1997, pp. 91-112.
"Probability and Epistemology" entry in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1997.
"Humean Supervenience" in Philosophical Topics 1996 pp. 101-127
"Lockwood's Many Minds" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Summer 1996 pp. 229-232.
"Naturalizing Semantics" in The Companion to the Philosophy of Language ed. by Wright and Hale, 1996
"Tails of Schrodinger's Cat" with D. Albert, 1995 in Perspectives on Quantum Reality ed. Clifton, Kluwer pp. 281-192
"Probability and Quantum Theory" in the Patrick Suppes Feschrift, ed. by P. Humphries, 1994, Reidel. pp. 3-28
"The Value of Truth", in Information and Content, ed. E. Villanueva 1994, Ridgeview. pp.265-280.
"An Argument for Strong Supervenience" in a collection on Supervenience, ed. E. Savellos, 1994, Oxford University.
"Non-Ideal Measurements" with D. Albert Foundations of Physics, August, 1993, pp. 54-62.
"The Measurement Problem: Some `Solutions'“ with D. Albert. Synthese 1991 pp. 87-98.
"Schrodinger's Cat: Wanted Dead or Alive" with D. Albert PSA proceedings 1990. pp. 277-285
"Two No-Collapse Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics" with D. Albert, Nous, March 1989. pp. 169-86
"Interpreting the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics" with D. Albert, Synthese, 12, 1988. pp. 195-213
"A Conditional Logic for Defeasible Belief" with M. Belzer, Decision Supports Systems 4 (1988) pp. 29-42.
"Putnam's Progress" with E. Lepore, in Midwest Studies, XII, 1988 pp.459- 473.
"Semantics for Propositional Attitudes", with E.LePore, Essays in Honor of Quine, ed P. Leonardo. Cambridge Press 1992. pp.186-205.
"Absolute Truth Theories" with E. LePore. Critica April 1979, pp 37-58
"Formalizing Defeasible Deontic Reasoning" with M. Belzer, in Defeasible Reasoning ed. D. Nute Kluwer 1987 pp. 88-101
"Dual Aspect Semantics" with E. Lepore - in New Directions in Semantics, ed. Lepore, Academic Press 1986
"Solipsistic Semantics" with E. Lepore - Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 1985.
"Information and Belief", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol 2 1983.
“Descartes Skeptical and Anti-skeptical Arguments” Philosophical Studies 39 (1981) pp. 162-182
“Cotenability and Counterfactual Logics” The Jounal of Philosophical Logic 8 (1979) pp.99-115
“Leibniz and the Ontological Argument” Philosophical Studies 34 (1978) pp.105-112
"On the Likelihood Principle" - with R. Rosenkrantz and R. Laddaga - The Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1978, pp. 279-286.
"Counterfactuals with Disjunctive Antecedents" - Journal of Philosophy, Vol. LXXIII, Sept. 1976, pp. 531-537.
Recent Lectures (partial list):
Invited to lecture on the
Invited Symposium :Conditionals” Pacific APA 2009.
Invited lectures at the University of Oslo on Conditionals May 2008.
Everett at Fifty Conference: Oxford University July 2007
Shapiro Conference: Brown University April 28, 2007, “Conditionals and Probabilities”
Chapel Hill Colloquium: Nov 6-8, 2006, “Laws and Properties”
PhD students: Director:
Rupert Read 1995
Michael Strevens 1996
David Nelson 1998
Stephanie Beardman 2000
Jill North 2004
Jonathan Weisberg 2006
Heather Demerast 2011
Committee member on 14 dissertations at Rutgers, two at Columbia, one at Princeton, one at Michigan, one at Oslo, one at Helsinki.
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