 | Michael Strevens
Associate Professor
of
Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
5 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003
Phone:
(212) 998-3559
Fax:
(212) 995-4179
Email:
Ph.D., Rutgers
Personal Homepage:
http://www.strevens.org/
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MICHAEL STREVENS (Ph.D., Rutgers), Associate Professor of Philosophy, works on the philosophy of science, where his interests include explanation, complex systems, probability, confirmation, the social structure of science, and causation; the psychology of concepts; and the philosophical applications of cognitive science. He is currently writing a book about explanation.
Recent representative publications:
"The Causal and Unification Accounts of Explanation Unified Causally", Noûs 38, 154-179, 2004.
Bigger than Chaos: Understanding Complexity through Probability, Harvard University Press, 2003.
"The Role of the Priority Rule in Science", Journal of Philosophy 100, 55-79, 2003.
"The Essentialist Aspect of Naive Theories", Cognition 74, 149-175, 2000.
Online papers
Many papers are posted online at Professor Strevens's web site.
Courses
Undergraduate
Honors Seminar, Fall 2004
Graduate
Advanced Seminar on Percepts and Concepts (Fall 2005, Professors Block and Strevens)
High Level Explanation, Fall 2004
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