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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