Paul Humphreys (philosopher)
Paul Humphreys (1950-2022) was a British professor of philosophy at the University of Virginia, specialising in philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology. His interests included the metaphysics and epistemology of emergence, computational science, empiricism and realism.
Education and career
Humphreys earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Sussex, and then went to Stanford University where he received his Ph.D. in 1976.https://philosophy.virginia.edu/sites/philosophy.virginia.edu/files/PHIL.Humphreys.P.CV_14-15.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=September 2022}} He joined the University of Virginia faculty in 1978, where he spent the rest of his career (apart from visiting appointments at University of Arizona, Stanford University, University of Pittsburgh and others), rising to the rank of "Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy."https://philosophy.virginia.edu/sites/philosophy.virginia.edu/files/PHIL.Humphreys.P.CV_14-15.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=September 2022}}
Philosophical work
He was a significant contributor to the philosophy of emergent properties,[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/properties-emergent/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy] as well as other areas in the philosophy of science and philosophy of probability."Why Propensities Cannot Be Probabilities," The Philosophical Review 94 (1985), 557-570"Some Considerations on Conditional Chance," British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2004)
Humphreys published a substantial number of books and scholarly articles. He was Series Editor for the Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Science. He serves on the editorial Boards of the American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy of Science, and Foundations of Science.
Select publications
- Emergence: Contemporary Readings in Science and Philosophy. Mark Bedau and Paul Humphreys (eds). The MIT Press, 2007 {{isbn|978-0262026215}}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZIot7QGz7eEC Extending Ourselves: Computational Science, Empiricism, and Scientific Method] (Oxford, 2004) {{isbn|0-19-515870-9}}
- "Some Considerations on Conditional Chance," British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2004)
- "Computational Models", Philosophy of Science 69 (2002), S1-S11
- "Are There Algorithms that Discover Causal Structure?" Synthese (1999, with David Freedman)
- "How Properties Emerge," Philosophy of Science 64 (1997), 1-17
- The Chances of Explanation (Princeton, 1989){{cite journal|author=Krieger, M.H.|author-link=Martin Harvey Krieger|date=June 1993|title=Review of The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical, and Physical Sciences by Paul Humphreys|journal=Philosophy of the Social Sciences|volume=23|issue=2|pages=252–268|doi=10.1177/004839319302300208 |s2cid=143463298 |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/b904a589262b570b5788010dc525a6a9/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1816643}} {{cite book|title=2014 pbk edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0hUABAAAQBAJ|isbn=978-0-691-02086-0| last1=Humphreys | first1=Paul | date=14 July 2014 | publisher=Princeton University Press }}
- "Why Propensities Cannot Be Probabilities," The Philosophical Review 94 (1985), 557-570
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