Michael Strevens Professor of Philosophy, Bioethics 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/

Michael Strevens (Ph.D., Rutgers), 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 philosophical methodology.

Recent representative publications

• Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation, Harvard University Press, 2008.
• Why Represent Causal Relations? A. Gopnik and L. Schulz (eds.), Causal Learning: Psychology, Philosophy, Computation, Oxford University Press, 2007.
• The Role of the Matthew Effect in Science. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 37, 159–170, 2006.
• How Are the Sciences of Complex Systems Possible? Philosophy of Science, 72:531–556, 2005.

Courses

Undergraduate

• Philosophy of Science, Fall 2008
• Time and Meaning, Freshman Seminar, Fall 2007

Graduate

• Advanced Introduction to Epistemology: Confirmation Theory, Fall 2006
• Percepts and Concepts, Fall 2005
• Philosophy of Science: High Level Explanation, Fall 2004