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Wayne Myrvold
BSc McGill, PhD Boston

  • Associate Professor
  • Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mathematics 

Office: Stevenson Hall, Room 4143
E-mail: wmyrvold@uwo.ca
Website: Personal

2012-2013 Teaching

  • PHIL 2300G - Philosophy of Science
  • PHIL 3320G - Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
  • PHIL 9245 - Survey of Philosophy of Science

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

  • “Epistemic Values and the Value of Learning.” Forthcoming in Synthese.  Available at http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/8415.
  •  “Deterministic Laws and Epistemic Chances,.”  in Yemima Ben-Menahem and Meir Hemmo, eds., Probability in Physics (Springer, 2012), pp. 73–85.
  • “Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics: A Maxwellian View.”  Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 42 (November 2011), pp. 237–243.  
  • “Nonseparability, Classical and Quantum,” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 62 (June 2011), pp. 417­­–­432.
  • (with Hilary Greaves) “Everett and Evidence,” in Simon Saunders, Jonathan Barrett, Adrian Kent,   and David Wallace, eds., Many Worlds? Everett, Quantum Theory, and Reality. (Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 264¬–304.
  • “From Physics to Information Theory and Back,” in Alisa Bokulich and Gregg Jaeger, eds.,  Philosophy of Quantum Information and Entanglement. (Cambridge University Press, 2010),  pp. 181–207.
  • “Relativistic Quantum Becoming,” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 53 (September 2003), pp. 475–500.
  • “A Bayesian Account of the Virtue of Unification,” Philosophy of Science 70 (April 2003), pp. 399–423.

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