William Penn
Visiting Assistant Professor
Curtain Hall 633
Education
- BA in Philosophy, Physics, Advanced Mathematics At Michigan State University,
- PhD in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
Research Interests
- Philosophy of Physics
- Empiricism
- Scientific Metaphysics
- Process theory
- History of Modern Physics
- Science and Society
Teaching Interests
- Philosophy of Science (writ large)
- Metaphysics
- Logic
- Empiricist Epistemology
- Science and Values
- History of Science
- History of Philosophy of Science
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