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John D. Norton, Chair and Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science
History and Philosophy of Physics
PhD, University of New South Wales
John D. Norton is professor of history and philosophy of science and chair of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Philosophy. He studies the history and philosophy of physics (relativity, quantum theory, and statistical physics), with a special interest in general relativity, and has published extensively on the detailed steps of Einstein's discovery of general relativity and on its philosophical foundations. He was a contributing editor to the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volumes 3 and 4. He also works in general philosophy of science, with emphasis on different approaches to induction and confirmation, inconsistency in theories and thought experiments. He has worked recently on supertasks in classical, relativistic, and quantum physics. He is editor for philosophy of physics (spacetime physics) for the Stanford On-line Encyclopedia of Philosophy
