Arthur Fine
(Brief CV)
Department of Philosophy
206-543--5855 (Office Telephone)
University of
Washington 206-685-8740 (FAX)
Seattle, WA
98195-3550 afine@uw.edu
University of Chicago, Ph.D.
(Philosophy) 1963
Cambridge University, Postdoctoral Fellow (History
& Philosophy of Science), 1966-67
Academic Appointments
Regular, Professor of Philosophy
University of Washington (Professor Emeritus, 2014 ), Adjunct Professor of Physics
& Adjunct Professor of History
Northwestern
University (John Evans Professor)
University of
Illinois at Chicago
Cornell University
Visiting, Professor of
Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
University of California at Los Angeles,
Stanford University
University of Chicago
London University
Also
Distinguished Visitor, Williams College
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 (with J. Worrall): "Philosophy of Science," Routledge
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Editor-in-Chief: Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science
Association
Co-Editor (with S. Shoemaker): 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
Awards & Honors
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Named Prize: The Arthur Fine Prize in Philosophy of Science.
A biennial
award to a UW graduate student for an essay submission to a conference
on philosophy of science.
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
National Science Foundation (principal investigator
for five research grants)
American Council of Learned Societies (foreign travel grant)
Publications
A.
Books
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. E-edition 2012.
Edited
Collections
1. Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory: An
Appraisal. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1996.
(Co-edited with J. Cushing and S.
Goldstein.)
2. PSA: 1986, PSA:1988 and PSA:1990, Vols. 1 & 2. (Co-edited with M. Forbes et al.)
B.
Select Articles
- (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 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)
- 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. (Link to PDF file)
- 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. (Link to PDF file)
- Einstein's Interpretations of the Quantum Theory. Science in Context 6 (1993) 257-273. (Link to PDF file)
- Piecemeal Realism. Philosophical Studies 61 (1990) 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. (Link to PDF file)
- Hidden Variables, Joint Probability and the Bell Inequalities. Physical Review Letters 48 (1982) 291-95. (Link to PDF file)
- Joint Distributions, Quantum Correlations and Commuting Observables. Journal of Mathematical Physics 23 (1982) 1306-1310. (Link to PDF file)
- Insolubility of the Quantum Measurement Problem. The Physical Review D2 (1970) 2783-87. (Link to PDF file)
Plus over
one hundred other articles
and reviews in
philosophical and scientific journals, and in numerous anthologies.