Barry Loewer

Curriculum Vitae (Spring 2010)

CONTACT INFORMATION

Department of Philosophy

RutgersUniversity

New Brunswick, NJ08901

732-932-9181 x9146

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EDUCATION

AmherstCollege, BA with honors in Philosophy, Mathematics, and Greek

StanfordUniversity, 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, RutgersUniversity and Director of Graduate Studies

1999-2000 Senior Fellow, Collegium Budapest

1989- 2000: Professor I, RutgersUniversity (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, RutgersUniversity

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:

CentralEuropeanUniversity 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

  1. Physicalism and Its Discontents, with Carl Gillett, CambridgeUniversity Press 2001.
  2. Meaning in Mind: The Philosophyof Jerry Fodor, with Georges Rey, Basil Blackwell 1991.
  3. Philosophy in 30 Seconds Barnes and Noble 2009. (edited and wrote about 1/3)
  4. 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)

  1. “Why Is There Anything Except Physics?” Synthese 2009
  2. “Laws and Properties” forthcoming in Philosophical Topics 2010
  3. “Probability in Physics” to appear in a collection on Philosophy and Probability Cambridge University Press 2010
  4. “Laws and Time” to appear in a collection ed. by Craig Callander On the Nature of Time.OxfordUniversity Press 2010
  5. “Philosophy of Physics” major entry in the McMillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy Second Edition 2006
  6. “Why There Is Anything Except Physics!” On Being Reduced ed. J. Kallestrup. OxfordUniversity Press 2008
  7. “Determinism” chapter in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Scienceed. Martin Curd and 2007
  8. “Mental Causation or Something Close Enough” for a book in Debates in Philosophy of Minded. By McLaughlin and Cohen. Oxford 2007
  9. “Counterfactuals and the Second Law” in Causal Republicanism ed. HuwPrice Oxford 2006
  10. “David Lewis’ Theory of Objective Chance” Philosophy of ScienceWinter 2004
  11. “Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics: Strange Bedfellows” in New Essays on Consciousness ed. Quentin Smith. OxfordUniversity Press. 2004
  12. “Time for Philosophy” The Budapest Review of Books: Summer 2003
  13. “Determinism and Chance” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics Vol. 32, No.4 pp. 609-620
  14. “Bohmian vs. Copenhagen Quantum Mechanics” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 1998 p. 317-328
  15. "Freedom From Physics" in Philosophical Topics, 1997, pp. 91-112.
  16. "Probability and Epistemology" entry in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1997.
  17. "Humean Supervenience" in Philosophical Topics 1996 pp. 101-127
  18. "Lockwood's Many Minds" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Summer 1996 pp.229-232.
  19. "Naturalizing Semantics" in The Companion to the Philosophy of Language ed. by Wright and Hale, 1996
  20. "Tails of Schrodinger's Cat" with D. Albert, 1995 in Perspectives on Quantum Reality ed. Clifton, Kluwer pp. 281-192
  21. "Probability and Quantum Theory" in the Patrick Suppes Feschrift, ed. by P. Humphries, 1994, Reidel. pp. 3-28
  22. "The Value of Truth", in Information and Content, ed. E. Villanueva1994, Ridgeview. pp.265-280.
  23. "An Argument for Strong Supervenience" in a collection on Supervenience, ed. E. Savellos, 1994, OxfordUniversity.
  1. "Non-Ideal Measurements" with D. Albert Foundations of Physics, August, 1993, pp. 54-62.
  2. "The Measurement Problem: Some `Solutions'“ with D. Albert. Synthese 1991 pp. 87-98.
  3. "Schrodinger's Cat: Wanted Dead or Alive" with D.Albert PSA proceedings 1990. pp. 277-285
  4. "Two No-Collapse Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics" with D.Albert, Nous, March 1989. pp. 169-86
  5. "Interpreting the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics" with D. Albert, Synthese, 12, 1988. pp. 195-213
  6. "A Conditional Logic for Defeasible Belief" with M. Belzer, Decision Supports Systems 4 (1988) pp. 29-42.
  7. "Putnam's Progress" with E. Lepore, in Midwest Studies, XII, 1988 pp.459- 473.
  8. "Semantics for Propositional Attitudes", with E.LePore, Essays in Honor of Quine, ed P. Leonardo. Cambridge Press 1992. pp.186-205.
  9. "Absolute Truth Theories" with E. LePore. Critica April 1979, pp 37-58
  10. "Formalizing Defeasible Deontic Reasoning" with M. Belzer, in Defeasible Reasoning ed. D. Nute Kluwer 1987 pp. 88-101
  11. "Dual Aspect Semantics" with E. Lepore - in New Directions in Semantics, ed. Lepore, Academic Press 1986
  12. "Solipsistic Semantics" with E. Lepore - Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 1985.
  13. "Information and Belief", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol 2 1983.
  14. “Descartes Skeptical and Anti-skeptical Arguments” Philosophical Studies 39 (1981) pp. 162-182
  15. “Cotenability and Counterfactual Logics” The Jounal of Philosophical Logic 8 (1979) pp.99-115
  16. “Leibniz and the Ontological Argument” Philosophical Studies 34 (1978) pp.105-112
  17. "On the Likelihood Principle" - with R. Rosenkrantz and R. Laddaga - The Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1978, pp. 279-286.
  18. "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: OxfordUniversity July 2007

Shapiro Conference: BrownUniversity 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.