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John Earman, University Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science

History and Foundations of Physics

PhD, Princeton, 1968

jearman@pitt.edu

John Earman is professor of history and philosophy of science. He is author of A Primer on Determinism (1986); World Enough and Space-Time: Absolute and Relational Theories of Space and Time (1989); Bayes or Bust? A Critical Examination of Bayesian Confirmation Theory (1992); Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers, and Shrieks: Singularities and Acausality in Relativistic Spacetimes (1995); and Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles He serves on the editorial boards of Philosophy of Science and Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, and is President of the Philosophy of Science Association. His main research interests are in history and foundations of physics.

Carnap's record of the Vienna Circle members' votes about certain important philosophical propositions and how their positions were changed after reading the Tractatus of Wittgenstein. open [+]

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