James Robert Brown
Department of Philosophy
University of Toronto
My
Department homepage in the Philosophy Department
The Philosophy Department website
Books
·
The
Rational and the Social (Routledge 1989)
·
The
Laboratory of the Mind: Thought Experiments in the Natural Sciences (Routledge 1991, second edition 2010)
·
Smoke
and Mirrors: How Science Reflects Reality
(Routledge 1994)
·
Philosophy
of Mathematics: A Contemporary Introduction to the World of Proofs and Pictures (Routledge 1999, second edition 2008)
·
Who
Rules in Science? An Opinionated Guide to the Wars
(Harvard 2001)
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Platonism,
Naturalism, and Mathematical Knowledge
(Routledge 2012)
·
Philosophy
of Science: The Key Thinkers (edited) (Continuum 2012)
·
Thought
Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts (ed.
with M. Frappier and L. Meynell ) (Routledge 2012)
·
Foundations
of Seismology: Bringing Idealization Down to Earth
(with Michael Slawinski) (World Scientific 2017)
·
Thought
Experiments Handbook (edited with M. Stuart and Y. Fehege) (Routledge 2017)
·
Several
other books edited.
Interests and Projects
·
Philosophy
of Mathematics (including Platonism, naturalism, nature of applied mathematics,
diagrams and visual reasoning, relation to ethics)
·
Philosophy
of Science (including thought experiments, scientific realism)
·
Foundations
of Physics (spacetime, QM, cosmology)
·
Social
Relations of Science (social constructivism, science and religion,
commercialization on research, especially pharmaceutical)
Selected audio/video/internet
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Privatizing
the University - The New Tragedy of the Commons (Science)
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Thought
Experiments (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Video:
Proofs and Pictures (Perimeter Institute)
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Video:
Thought Experiments (Perimeter Institute)
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Audio:
Why Einstein Matters - Panel discussion on Quirks & Quarks CBC Radio
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Video:
Debates on TVO (1) Science and Religion, (2) Assault on Science
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Video:
Patents and Progress: Crisis in Commercialized Medical ResearchӦnbsp;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4biZj2N6pXo
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Audio:
What is Space Anyway?
http://starspotpodcast.com/2013/07/12/philosophers-eye-astronomy-james-robert-brown/
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Video:
Ideas Road Show: Platonism
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/james-robert-brown-2013-04-12
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Pure
and Applied: Math and Ethics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9ydIVvPQQ
Editing and Organizing
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Co-Director
(1985-) of the Annual Philosophy of Science Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia
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Editor
(1996 - 2001) of the journal, International Studies in the Philosophy of
Science
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Co-Editor
(1990 - 2000) of the book series, Toronto Studies in Philosophy
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Board
of Editors of several journals
Other stuff (elected
to:)
·
Deutsche Akademie der
Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der
Wissenschaften, 2004
·
Royal Society of Canada, 2007
·
Académie Internationale de Philosophie
des Sciences, 2010