RESEARCH FIELDS:
- Philosophy and History of Physics
- Philosophy of Science
- Metaphysics
EDUCATION:
- May 1986 BA Philosophy and BA Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, USA
- March 1992 PhD Philosophy, Stanford University, California, USA
- Dissertation title: General Relativity and Spacetime Relationism
CONTACT:
Despatx: B7-116
Tel.: 93.586.81.73
correu-e:carl.hoefer@uab.es
EMPLOYMENT AND FELLOWSHIPS:
Sept 1986 - June 1989 Mellon Fellow in the Humanities
Sept 1988 - June 1991 University Fellowship/Teaching Assistantship, Stanford University
July 1991 – Jan 1998 Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, University of California at Riverside
Sept 1995 - Sept 1996 Sabbatical Research Fellowship, General Directorate of Scientific and Technical Investigation (DGICYT), Government of Spain
Feb 1998 – Jul 1998 Associate Professor (tenured), Philosophy Department, University of California at Riverside
Aug 1998 – Dec 2000 Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics
Jan 2001 – Sept 2002 Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics
Sept 2001 – Sept 2002 Director, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), London School of Economics
Sept 2002 – present Research Professor, ICREA and UAB, Barcelona, Spain.SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
"Einstein’s Struggle for a Machian Gravitation Theory", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science vol 25 no 3, 1994.
"On Lewis’ Objective Chance: Humean Supervenience Debugged", Mind vol 106 no 422, 1997.
"Absolute vs Relational Spacetime; For Better or Worse, the Debate Goes On", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science vol 49, 1998.
"Energy Conservation in GTR", Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics vol 31 no 2, 2000.
"Kant’s Hands and Earman’s Pions: Chirality Arguments for Substantival Space", International Studies in Philosophy of Science vol 14 no 3, 2000.
"Freedom from the Inside Out", in Craig Callender (ed.), Time, Reality and Experience (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
"Causal Determinism", encyclopfdia article for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online: http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html), 2003.
"For Fundamentalism", Philosophy of Science (PSA 2002), v. 70 no. 5, 2003.
"Determinism and Causality: Tension, or Outright Conflict?", Revista de Filosofia, v. 29 no. 2, Dec. 2004.
"Humean Effective Strategies" in Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (ed. Petr Hajek, Luis Valdes-Villanueva and Dag Westerstahl), KCLPublications, 2005.
"The Third Way on Objective Probability: A Skeptic's Guide to Objective Chance", MIND, v. 116 no. 2, 2007.
PROJECTS:
Causality in General Relativity Theory (MEC HUM2005-07187-C03-02), 2005 – 2008) Part of the coordinated research project "Causal and Classical Concepts in Physics", with other sub-groups led by Mauricio Suarez (Madrid) and Henrik Zinkernagel (Granada).
Chance in the World Book detailing a Humean/Actualist theory of objective probabilities.
Mach's Principle and Space-Time (Research on the proper understanding of Mach's Principle and relationism in the context of General Relativity and Quantum Gravity).
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