Don Howard
Professor of Philosophy
Contact Information
Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
100 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: (574) 631-7547 and 219-631-5017
E-Mail: howard.43@nd.edu
Office: 308 Malloy and 346 O'Shaughnessy (HPS office)
Office Hours: 2:00-3:00 Tuesdays and Thursdays
Homepage: http://www.nd.edu/~dhoward1
Education:
Ph.D., Boston University.
Areas of Interest:
Philosophy of Science, Foundations of Physics, History of
Philosophy of Science.
Selected Bibliography
Recent Articles:
- "Reduction and Emergence in the Physical Sciences: Some Lessons from the Particle Physics' Condensed Matter Physics Debate," (2005)
- Who Invented the Copenhagen Interpretation: A Study in Mythology" (2004)
- "Einstein as a Philosopher of Science" (2005)
- "Two Left Turns Make a Right: On the Curious Political Career of North American Philosophy of Science at Mid-century," (2003)
- "Point Coincidences and Pointer Coincidences: Einstein on Invariant Structure in Spacetime Theories," (1999)
- "Astrided the Divided Line: Platonism, Empiricism, and Einstein's Epistemological Opportunism," (1998)
- "A Peek Behind the Veil of Maya: Einstein, Schopenhauer, and the Historical Background of the Conception of Space as a Ground for the Individuation of Physical Systems," (1997)
- "Relativity, Eindeutigkeit, and Monomorphism: Rudolf Carnap and the Development of the Categoricity Concept in Formal Semantics," (1996)
- "Einstein, Kant, and the Origins of Logical Empiricism," (1994)
- "Was Einstein Really a Realist?" (1993)
Books:
- Einstein: The Formative Years, 1879-1909, co-editor with John Stachel (2001)
- The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, vol. 3, The Swiss Years: Writings, 1909-1912, contributing ed. with Martin Klein et al. (1993)
- The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, vol. 2, The Swiss Years: Writings, 1900-1909, asst. ed. with John Stachel et al. (1989)
- Einstein and the History of General Relativity, co-editor with John Stachel, (1989)
