Craig Callender
{{Short description|Philosopher}}
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Craig Callender (born 1968) is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. His main areas of research are philosophy of science, philosophy of physics and metaphysics.[http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/ccallender/ C. Callendar (USCD)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006205905/http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/ccallender/# |date=2011-10-06 }}, downloaded 16 October 2011
Education and career
Callender obtained his PhD in 1997 from Rutgers University with a thesis entitled Time's Arrow[http://www.lib.uci.edu/about/publications/philosophy/callender.html C. Callendar, publications list] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120805065520/http://www.lib.uci.edu/about/publications/philosophy/callender.html |date=2012-08-05 }}, downloaded 16 October 2011 under the supervision of Robert Weingard.[http://philosophy.rutgers.edu/graduate/placement Rutgers graduate placements list] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111120062507/http://philosophy.rutgers.edu/graduate/placement |date=2011-11-20 }}, downloaded 16 October 2011 From 1996-2000, he worked in the Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. Currently, he is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego where he is also the co-director of the Institute for Practical Ethics at the University of California, San Diego. Callender serves on the Committee for Freedom and Responsibility of Science of the International Science Council.
Callender has written articles for Scientific American{{cite web|url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/author/craig-callender/|title=Stories by Craig Callender|publisher=Scientific American|access-date=23 November 2014}} on the philosophy of time and participated in the World Science Festival 2013{{cite web|url=http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/programs/salon_time/|title=Refining Einstein: New theories of time|publisher=World Science Festival|access-date=23 November 2014}} with Tim Maudlin and Max Tegmark on the same topic.
Selected publications
In reverse chronological order, unless otherwise specified.
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=Books=
- Callender, Craig (2017). What Makes Time Special? Oxford University Press, Oxford, ISBN 978-0-19-879730-2
- {{cite book |title=The Oxford handbook of philosophy of time |series=Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy |editor-last=Callender |editor-first=Craig |year=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-929820-4}}
- Craig Callender (ed.): Time, Reality and Experience, Cambridge University Press, August 2002, {{ISBN|978-0-521-52967-9}}
- Craig Callender, Nick Huggett (eds.): Physics meets philosophy at the Planck scale: contemporary theories in quantum gravity, Cambridge University Press, 2001, {{ISBN|0-521-66280-X}} / {{ISBN|0-521-66445-4}}
- Craig Callender, Ralph Edney: Introducing time, Totem Books, 1997, {{ISBN|978-1-84046-263-0}}
=Articles=
- {{cite journal |last=Callender |first=Craig |date=June 2010 |title=Is time an illusion? |journal=Scientific American |volume=302 |issue=6 |pages=40–47 |doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0610-58|pmid=20521481 |bibcode=2010SciAm.302f..58C }}
- Craig Callender, Robert Weingard: Topology change and the unity of space, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 227–246, 2000, [https://web.archive.org/web/20111107213411/http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/ccallender/index_files/topochange.pdf full text]
- Craig Callender, Robert Weingard: Nonlocality in the expanding infinite well, Foundations of Physics Letters, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 495–498, 1998, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120502034156/http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/ccallender/index_files/nonlocality%20in%20inf%20well.pdf full text]
- Robert Weingard, Craig Callender: Trouble in paradise: Problems for Bohm's theory, The Monist, Quantum Mechanics and the Real World, vol. 80, no. 1 January 1997, [http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2864538 abstract (in French language)]
- Craig Callender, Robert Weingard: Time, Bohm's theory, and quantum cosmology, Philosophy of Science, vol. 63, September 1996, pp. 470–474, [https://www.jstor.org/pss/188107 abstract]
- Craig Callender, Robert Weingard: Bohmian cosmology and the quantum smearing of the initial singularity (communicated by Peter R. Holland), Physics Letters A, Volume 208, Issues 1-2, 20 November 1995, pp. 59–61, [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0375960195007014 abstract]
- Craig Callender, Robert Weingard: The Bohmian model of quantum cosmology, Philosophy of Science Association, PSA 1994, Vol. 1, pp. 218–227, [https://www.jstor.org/pss/193027 abstract]
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20111006205905/http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/ccallender/ C. Callendar (USCD)]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20141030024432/http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/ccallender/publications.shtml C. Callendar, publications list (USCD)]
- [https://archive.today/20120805065520/http://www.lib.uci.edu/about/publications/philosophy/callender.html C. Callendar, publications list (University of California Irvine)]
- [http://www.philostv.com/craig-callender-and-sean-carroll/ Discussion on Philosophy TV] with Sean Carroll
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Category:Philosophers of physics
Category:University of California, San Diego faculty
Category:21st-century American philosophers