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Gordon Belot, Associate Professor
Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science
PhD, Pittsburgh, 1996
Gordon Belot is associate professor of philosophy and fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science, with a secondary appointment in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Before joining the faculty at Pitt in 2004, he taught at Princeton and NYU. He has held a post-doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and a fellowship from the National Science Foundation. His primary interests are in philosophy of physics and philosophy of science. Several of his recent papers are concerned with the interpretative, methodological, and metaphysical implications of symmetry principles.
Selected Publications
“Dust, Time, and Symmetry,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 56 (2005), 255–91.
“Whose Devil? Which Details?,” Philosophy of Science 72 (2005), 128–153.
“Symmetry and Gauge Freedom,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 34 (2003), 189–225.
“The Principle of Sufficient Reason,” Journal of Philosophy XCVIII (2001), 55–74.
With J. Earman, “Pre-Socratic Quantum Gravity,” in C. Callender and N. Huggett (eds.), Philosophy Meets Physics at the Planck Scale, Cambridge University Press (2001), 213–255.
“Understanding Electromagnetism,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 49 (1998), 531–555.
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