James
Robert Brown
Department
of Philosophy
University
of Toronto
Toronto
M5R 2M8
Canada
<Philosophy Department Home Page>
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Courses (2009-10)
·
HUM 199 Y Science,
Religion, and Society (Wednesday, 7 – 9 pm)
·
PHL 2196 F (Grad) Space
& Time (Wednesdays 12:30 – 3 pm)
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PHL 355 S Philosophy of Science (Wednesday 12:30 – 3 pm)
Books
·
The Rational and the Social (Routledge
1989)
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The Laboratory of the Mind: Thought
Experiments in the Natural Sciences (Routledge 1991, second
edition 2010) <NOTES> New edition now available.
·
Smoke and Mirrors: How Science Reflects
Reality (Routledge
1994) <NOTES>
·
Philosophy of Mathematics: An
Introduction to the World of Proofs and Pictures (Routledge
1999, second edition 2008) <NOTES> New
edition now available.
·
Who Rules in Science? An Opinionated
Guide to the Wars (Harvard 2001) <LINK to HUP> , <NOTES>
Forthcoming
·
Platonism, Naturalism,
and Mathematical Knowledge
(Routledge
2011)
·
Seismology: Bringing
Idealization Down to Earth (with
Michael Slawinski) (World Scientific 2011)
·
Philosophy of Science:
The Key Thinkers (edited) (Continuum 2010)
·
Subtle Matter (Oxford 2012)
·
Thought Experiments in
Philosophy, Science, and the Arts (ed with M. Frappier
and L. Meynell ) (Routledge
2011)
·
Philosophy of Science (Plenum 2013)
Interests & Projects
·
Philosophy
of Science (including thought experiments, scientific realism, methodology, the
relation of modern science to traditional and indigenous knowledge)
·
Philosophy
of Mathematics (including Platonism, naturalism, nature of applied mathematics,
diagrams and visual reasoning)
·
Foundations
of Physics (space & time, quantum mechanics, the nature of symmetry)
·
Social
Relations of Science (including social constructivism and objectivity, science
and religion, the effects of commercialization on research, science and
politics)
Activities
·
Co-Director
(1985 - ) of the Annual
Philosophy of Science Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia <Poster>
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Editor
(1996 - 2001) of the journal, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science <ISPS>
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Co-Editor
(1990 - 2000) of the book series, Toronto Studies in Philosophy <TSP>
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Associate
Editor (2005 - 08 ) Episteme (A journal of social epistemology) <Episteme>
Articles & Audio/Video Lectures on
the Internet
·
“Privatizing the University - The New Tragedy of the
Commons” (Science)
<connect>
·
“Thought Experiments” (Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy) <connect>
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Video: “Proofs
and Pictures” (Perimeter Institute) <connect>
·
Video: “Thought
Experiments” (Perimeter Institute) <connect>
·
Audio: “Why
Einstein Matters” Panel discussion on Quirks & Quarks CBC
Radio <connect>
·
Video:
Debates on TVO (1) Science
and Religion, (2) Assault
on Science