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John Earman, University Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science
History and Foundations of Physics
PhD, Princeton, 1968
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.
