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Barry
Ward
Assistant
Professor
Department
of Philosophy
University
of Arkansas
Fayetteville,
AR 72701
Office:
Main 303
Phone:
(479) 575-7550
bmward@uark.edu
Office
hours Fall 2007: W 10:20-11:20 and 2:00-4:00 |
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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