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William Penn

  • Assistant Teaching Professor, Philosophy

Education

  • BA in Philosophy, Physics, Advanced Mathematics At Michigan State University,
  • PhD in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
PHILOS 211-401 Elementary Logic MW 9:30am-10:20am
PHILOS 211-601 Elementary Logic R 8:30am-9:20am
PHILOS 211-602 Elementary Logic R 9:30am-10:20am
PHILOS 211-603 Elementary Logic F 9:30am-10:20am
PHILOS 211-604 Elementary Logic F 10:30am-11:20am
PHILOS 212-001 Modern Deductive Logic MW 1pm-2:15pm
PHILOS 712-001 Fundamentals of Formal Logic MW 1pm-2:15pm
PHILOS 790-001 Advanced Topics in Philosophy: Philosophy of Science, Models and Modeling W 3:30pm-6:10pm

Teaching Interests

  • Philosophy of Science (writ large)
  • Metaphysics
  • Logic
  • Empiricist Epistemology
  • Science and Values
  • History of Science
  • History of Philosophy of Science

Research Interests

  • Philosophy of Physics
  • Empiricism
  • Scientific Metaphysics
  • Process theory
  • History of Modern Physics
  • Science and Society

Selected Publications

Penn, W. (forthcoming). “Pure Process Realism: The Unification of Realism and Empiricism.” Manuscrito.
Penn, W. (2023). Process Realism: How Experiment and History Necessitate a Process Ontology