AF CV

Arthur Fine
(Brief CV)

                                                Department of Philosophy 206-543--5855 (Office Telephone)
                                                University of Washington 206-685-8740 (FAX)
                                                Seattle, WA 98195-3550    afine@u.washington.edu

Academic Training

University of Chicago, Ph.D. (Philosophy) 1963
Cambridge University, Postdoctoral Fellow (History & Philosophy of Science), 1966-67

Academic Appointments

Regular

Professor of Philosophy (Adjunct Professor of Physics & of History), University of Washington (current)
John Evans Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University
Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago
Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University

Visiting
Visiting Professor of Philosophy:

                            University of Notre Dame
                            University of California at Los Angeles,
                            Stanford University
                            University of Chicago
                            London University

                        Also

                            Rufus Putnam Visitor, Ohio University
                            Visiting Scholar: Harvard University
                            Cowling Foundation Visitor: Carleton College
                            Academic Visitor: London School of Economics and Political Science
                            Supervisor in History and Philosophy of Science: Cambridge University

Professional Appointments

President: American Philosophical Association, Central Division, 1997-98

President: Philosophy of Science Association, 1987-89

Subject Editor: "Philosophy of Science," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Editor-in-Chief: Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association

Co-Editor: The Philosophical Review

Advisory Panels: National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, National Academy of Sciences

Governing Board: American Philosophical Association, Philosophy of Science Association

                        Editorial Board: Foundations of Physics, Philosophy of Science,
                                    Studies in History & Philosophy of Modern Physics

                        Panel of Referees: Nous, Philosophical Review, Philosophical Studies,
                                     Physical Review, Physics Letters A, Synthése

Awards

Fellowships

Dibner Institute for History of Science and Technology (M.I.T.), Visiting Fellow
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
National Endowment for the Humanities (Senior Fellowship)
N.A.T.O. Postdoctoral Fellowship
National Science Foundation Regular Postdoctoral Fellowship

Research Grants

National Science Foundation (principal investigator for five research grants)
American Council of Learned Societies (foreign travel grant)

                Teaching Grants

                        National Endowment for the Humanities:
                                Director, Summer Seminar for College Teachers
                        National Science Foundation:
                                Director, Institute for Secondary School Teachers of Mathematics

Publications

A. Books

1. Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory: An Appraisal. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1996.
(Co-edited with J. Cushing and S. Goldstein)

2. The Shaky Game: Einstein, Realism and The Quantum Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. Revised Paperback Edition, 1988. Japanese Translation, 1992. Second Edition 1996.

3. PSA: 1990, Vols. 1 and 2. E. Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association, 1990 and 1991. (Co-edited with M. Forbes & L. Wessels )

4. PSA: 1988, Vols. 1 and 2. E. Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association, 1988 and 1989. (Co-edited with M. Forbes & J. Leplin )

5. PSA: 1986, Vols. 1 and 2. E. Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association, 1986 and 1987. (Co-edited with P. Machamer)

B. Select Articles

Most Recent

• Epistemic Instrumentalism, Exceeding our Grasp. Philosophical Studies 137 (2008) 135-39.

• Bohr's Response to EPR: Criticism and Defense. Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 56 (2007) 31-56.

• (Jointly with M. Schlosshauer) Decoherence and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. In James Evans and Alan Thorndike (eds.),
Quantum Mechanics at the Crossroads. New York: Springer Publishing Co., 2007, pp. 125-48.

• Relativism, Pragmatism and the Practice of Science. In Cheryl Misak (ed.), The New Pragmatists. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 50-67.

Other Recent Articles

(Jointly with J. D, Malley) Noncommuting Observables and Local Realism. Physics Letters A, 347/1-3 (2005) 51-55. Also online at http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0505016.

(Jointly with A. Mueller) Realism, Beyond Miracles. In Y. Ben Menahim (ed.), Contemporary Philosophy in Focus: Hilary Putnam. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 83-124. (Link to PDF file.)

The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Argument in Quantum Theory. In E. N. Zalta (ed.) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2004, http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2004/entries/qt-epr/.

(Jointly with E. Winsberg) Quantum Life: Interaction, Entanglement, and Separation. Journal of Philosophy C (2003) 80-97. (Link to PDF file)

The Viewpoint of No-one in Particular. Proceedings and Addresses of The American Philosophical Association 72 (1998) 9-20. Reprinted as "Der Blickpunkt von niemand im besonderen". In Mike Sandbothe (ed.) Die Renaissance des Pragmatismus: Aktuelle Verflechtungen zwischen analytischer und kontinentaler Philosophie. Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2000, pp. 59-77; and in Mike Sandbothe and William Egginton (eds.) The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2004, pp. 115-129. (Link to PDF file)

(Jointly with L. Szabo) A Local Hidden Variable Theory for the GHZ Experiment. Physics Letters A. 295 (2002) 229-40. (Erratum, vol. 302, (2002) 345.) Also online at arXiv quant-ph/0007102.

(Jointly with D. Fine) Gauge Theory, Anomalies and Global Geometry: The Interplay of Physics and Mathematics. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 28 (1997)1-18. (Link to PDF file)

Science Made Up: Constructivist Sociology of Scientific Knowledge. In P. Galison and D. Stump (eds.) The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contexts, and Power. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 231-54. (Link to PDF file)

The Scientific Image Twenty Years Later. Philosophical Studies 106 (2001) 107-22. (Link to PDF file)

Indeterminism and the Freedom of the Will. In J. Earman et al.. (eds.) Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, pp. 551-72.

Fictionalism. Midwest Studies in Philosophy: 18 (1993) 1-18. Reprinted in M. Suárez (ed.), Fictions in Science: Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealization. London: Routledge, 2009, pp. 19-36. (Link to PDF file)

Measurement and Quantum Silence. In S. French and H. Kamminga (eds.) Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1993, pp. 279-94.

(Jointly with S. Kellert and M. Stone) Models, Chaos and Goodness of Fit. Philosophical Topics 18 (1991) 85-105.

Piecemeal Realism. Philosophical Studies 61 (1991) 79-96. (Link to PDF file)

Causes of Variation: Disentangling Nature and Nurture. Midwest Studies in Philosophy: 15 (1990) 94-113. (Link to PDF file)

Do Correlations Need to be Explained? In J. Cushing and E. McMullin (eds.) Philosophical Consequences of Quantum Theory. Notre Dame: U. of Notre Dame Press, 1989, pp. 175-94.

Plus over one hundred other articles and reviews in philosophical journals (including Ethics, Journal of Philosophy, Nous, Mind, Philosophical Review, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy of Science, Synthése), scientific journals (including The American Journal of Physics, The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Foundations of Physics, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Nature, Physical Review, Physics Letters A, Proceedings of The American Mathematical Society, Science), and in numerous anthologies.