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Barry
Ward
Associate
Professor
Department
of Philosophy
University
of Arkansas
Fayetteville,
AR 72701
Office:
Main 303
Phone:
(479) 575-7550
bmward@uark.edu
Office
hours Sprng 2009: Th 1:15 - 3:15, F 11:15 - 12:15
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Barry Ward's main interests are in metaphysics, philosophy of
science,
and philosophy of physics. His doctoral dissertation offers a Humean
projectivist
analysis of laws of nature and objective chances, and his current
research
aims at extending the treatment to causation and natural properties
while
fervently arguing that standard Humean approaches to the above issues
are
ill-motivated and fundamentally flawed. The entire projectivist
package,
coupled with a critique of both van Fraassen's antirealism about laws
and
standard realist views, is ultimately intended to make a book. In
addition,
he is currently exploiting some ideas about laws and explanation to
construct
a solution to Hempel's and Goodman's paradoxes of confirmation. He has
a master's degree in theoretical physics from Trinity College, Dublin,
and has interests in the Measurement Problem in Quantum Mechanics and
the
philosophy of time.
Representative
Publications:
- "Laws, Explanation, Governing, and Generation", The
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 85 (2007), 537-552.
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"Projecting Chances: A Humean Vindication and Justification of the
Principal
Principle", Philosophy of Science 72 (2005), 241-261.
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"Sometimes the World is not Enough: The Pursuit of Explanatory Laws in
a Humean World", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 84 (2003),
175-197.
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"Humeanism without Humean Supervenience: A Projectivist Account of Laws
and Possibilities", Philosophical Studies, 107 (2002), 191-218.
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"Inequivalent Vacuum States and Rindler Particles", with Robert
Weingard
in Le Vide, Univers du Tout et du Rien, edited by E.
Gunzig
and S. Diner, (Editions Complexe, Bruxelles, 1998), and in an English
version
of the volume forthcoming from Plenum.
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