Tim W. Maudlin Professor II Contact Information Office: Davison Hall 137 Email: Phone: (732) 932-9861 x137

Education

B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Speciality

Phil. of Physics, Phil. of Science, Metaphysics

Research

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Books The Metaphysics Within Physics; Oxford University Press, 2007 Truth and Paradox: Solving the Riddles; Oxford University Press, 2004 Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity: Metaphysical Intimations of Modern Physics; Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1994; Second Edition, 2002 Articles "Completeness, Supervenience and Ontology" in The Quantum Universe, a special edition of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 (2007) 3151-3171. "The Message of the Quantum?", with M. Daumer, D. Dürr, S. Goldstein, R. Tumulka, and N. Zanghì, in Quantum Mechanics: Are there Quantum Jumps? and On the Present Status of Quantum Mechanics, edited by A. Bassi, D. Dürr, T. Weber and N. Zanghì, AIP Conference Proceedings 844, 129-132 (American Institute of Physics, 2006), quant-ph/0604173. Abstract of Truth and Paradox with replies to comments by Hartry Field, Anil Gupta, and Nuel Belnap, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Nov. 2006, 696-704 and 728-739. "What Could Be Objective About Probabilities?" Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38, 275-91, with a longer version to be published in Probabilities in Physics, edited by Stephan Hartmann and Roman Frigg. "Non-Local Correlations in Quantum Theory: Some Ways the Trick Might be Done", Einstein, Relativity, and Absolute Simultaneity, ed. Quentin Smith and William Lane Craig, Routledge (2007) pp. 186-209. "Relativity", "Quantum Logic and Probability", "Gauge Theory", "Non-Locality" and "Quantum Mechanics" articles for the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Donald Borchert, Thompson Gale (2006). "Causes, Counterfactuals and the Third Factor" in Causes and Counterfactuals edited by N. Hall, L. Paul and J. Collins, MIT Press, 2004, pp. 419-443. "Thoroughly Muddled McTaggart or How to Abuse Gauge freedom to Generate Metaphysical Monstrosities" Philosopher's Imprint, vol. 2, #4 August 2002 (http://www.philosophersimprint.org/002004). "Distilling Metaphysics from Quantum Physics", The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics, edited by Michael Loux and Dean Zimmerman, Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 461-487. "The Tale of Quantum Logic", in Hilary Putnam edited by Yemima Ben Menahem, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 156-187. "Time Travel and Modern Physics" (With Frank Arntzenius), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu), republished in Time, Reality and Experience edited by C. Callender, Cambridge University Press, 2002. "Remarks on the Passing of Time", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society volume CII (part 3), pp. 237-252. "Dickson on Quantum Chance and Non-locality", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51, December 2001, pp. 875-882. "Interpreting Probabilities: What's interference got to do with it?", in Chance in Physics, edited by J. Bricmont, D. Dürr, M.C. Galvotti, G. Ghiardi, F. Petruccione, and N. Zanghì, Springer-Verlag Heidleberg 2001. "The Element of Surprise: Novelty and Realism" (critical notice of Jarrett Leplin's A Novel Defense of Scientific Realism) Philosophical Books 1999, pp. 81-86. "Discussion: Healey on the Aharonov-Bohm Effect", Philosophy of Science 65 #2 (June 1998) pp. 361-368. "Part and Whole in Quantum Mechanics" in Interpreting Bodies: Classical and Quantum Objects in Modern Physics, E. Castellani ed., (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), pp. 46-60. Reprinted in Philosophy of Science: An Anthology, edited by Mark Lange, Oxford,Blackwell Publishing 2007, pp. 634-642. "Descrying the World in the Wavefunction" The Monist 80, pp. 2-23 (January 1997). "On the Impossibility of Lewis's Modal Realism" Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74, pp. 669-682 (December 1996). "On the Unification of Physics" Journal of Philosophy 93, pp. 129-144 (March 1996). "Kuhn édenté: incommensurabilité et choix entre théories" (Kuhn Defanged: Incommensuarability and Theory Choice) Revue Philosophique de Louvain 94, pp. 428-446 (August, 1996). "Space-Time in the Quantum World", in Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory: An Appraisal, J. Cushing, A. Fine and S. Goldstein eds. (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1996) pp. 285-307. "Between the Motion and the Act", Psyche 2:40-51. "Why Bohm's Theory Solves the Measurement Problem" Philosophy of Science 62, pp. 479-483 (September, 1995). "Three Measurement Problems" Topoi 14, pp. 7-15 (March 1995). "The Irrelevance of Incommensurability", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 26, pp. 113-120 (February, 1995). "The Unbuttoned Empiricist: van Fraassen Speculates on the Quantum World" (critical notice of Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist View), Philosophical Books 35, pp. 94-101 (April 1994). "Buckets of Water and Waves of Space: Why Space-Time is Probably a Substance", Philosophy of Science 60, pp. 183-203 (June 1993). "Bell's Inequality, Information Transmission and Prism Models", In D. Hull, M. Forbes, and K. Okruhlik (eds) PSA 1992, vol. 1, East Lansing: Philosophy of Science Association, pp. 404-17. "Time Travel and Topology", Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association Meeting, 1990, vol. 1, pp. 304-15. "Substances and Space-Time: What Aristotle Would Have Said to Einstein", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 531-561 -(also published in Biologie, Logique et Metaphysique chez Aristote, (ed. D. Devereux and P. Pellgrin) Paris: editions du CNRS, 1990). "Computation and Consciousness", Journal of Philosophy 86, pp. 407-432. "A Model of Classical Space-Times", The Physics Teacher 27, no. 7, pp. 540-544. "The Essence of Space-Time", Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association Meetings, 1988, vol. 2, pp. 82-91. "Keeping Body and Soul Together: the Z.3 Puzzle and the Unity of Substances", The Dayton Review 19, no. 3, Winter 1988-89, pp. 121-133 (This is the first section of "Substances and Space-Time", listed above.. "The Structure of Skepticism", Ancient Philosophy VI, pp. 177-193. "De Anima 3.1: Is Any Sense Missing?", Phronesis XXXI.1, pp. 51-67.. Reviews Review of Truth and Realism, edited by P. Greenough and M. Lynch, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, June 18, 2007. Review of Rob Clifton's Quantum Entanglements, edited by J. Butterfield and H. Halvorsen, Mind 115, number 460, pp. 1111-1120 (October 2006). Review of David Bohm and Basil Hiley's The Undivided Universe, Philosophical Books 36, pp. 281-83 (October 1995). Review of James Cushing's Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Interpretation, American Journal of Physics 63, pp. 1155-56 (December 1995). Review of Lawrence Sklar's Physics and Chance and Philosophy of Physics, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46, pp. 145-49 (March 1995). Review of Nancy Cartwright's Nature's Capacities and their Measurement, Journal of Philosophy XC, pp. 599-603 (November 1993). Review of David Armstrong's A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility, Philosophy of Science 59, pp. 716-718 (December 1992). Review of Deborah Modrak's Aristotle: The Power of Perception, The Philosophical Review, XCIX, no. 2, pp. 305-309.