 | Michael Strevens
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), 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
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
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