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58
Citations
11676
World Ranking
1669
National Ranking
793

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1987 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

John Earman is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the arts, humanities, psychology, and physics, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to academic inquiry.

The main fields of study represented in their work include:

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Psychology
  • Physics and Astronomy

At a more specialized level, Earman's subfields of focus include:

  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • General Psychology
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

The primary topics explored across their publications consist of:

  • Philosophy and History of Science
  • Philosophy, Science, and History
  • Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
  • Quantum Mechanics and Applications
  • Philosophy and Theoretical Science

Earman has collaborated with other researchers, including frequent coauthor Laura Ruetsche.

Their contributions have been recognized through several fellowships:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1999
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1987

Best Publications

  • The cement of the universe

    John Earman;J. L. Mackie

  • A Primer on Determinism

    John Earman

  • Bayes or Bust? A Critical Examination of Bayesian Confirmation Theory

    David Christensen;John Earman

  • What Price Spacetime Substantivalism? The Hole Story

    John Earman;John Norton

  • An introduction to the philosophy of time and space

    John Earman;Bas C. van Fraassen

  • World enough and space-time : absolute versus relational theories of space and time

    John Earman

  • The “Past Hypothesis”: Not even false

    John Earman

  • Ceteris Paribus, there is No problem of provisos

    John Earman;John T. Roberts

  • Relativity and Eclipses: The British Eclipse Expeditions of 1919 and Their Predecessors

    John Earman;Clark Glymour

  • Laws, Symmetry, and Symmetry Breaking: Invariance, Conservation Principles, and Objectivity

    John Earman

  • Hume's Abject Failure

    John Earman

  • Exorcist XIV: The wrath of maxwell’s demon. Part II. from szilard to Landauer and beyond

    John Earman;John D. Norton

  • An Attempt to Add a Little Direction to "The Problem of the Direction of Time"

    John Earman

  • Exorcist XIV: The Wrath of Maxwell’s Demon. Part I. From Maxwell to Szilard

    John Earman;John D. Norton

  • CETERIS PARIBUS LOST

    John Earman;John T. Roberts;Sheldon Smith

  • Pre-socratic quantum gravity

    Gordon Belot;John Earman

  • A critical look at inflationary cosmology

    John Earman;Jesus Mosterin

  • Testing Scientific Theories

    John Earman

  • ASPECTS OF DETERMINISM IN MODERN PHYSICS

    John Earman

  • Underdetermination, Realism, and Reason

    John Earman

  • Handbook of philosophy of science

    Jeremy Butterfield;John Earman

  • Bayes or Bust? A Critical Examination of Bayesian Confirmation Theory

    Paul Castell;John Earman

Frequent Co-Authors

Wesley C. Salmon
Wesley C. Salmon University of Pittsburgh
Bas C. van Fraassen
Bas C. van Fraassen San Francisco State University
Frank Jackson
Frank Jackson Australian National University
Nicholas Rescher
Nicholas Rescher University of Pittsburgh
Nancy Cartwright
Nancy Cartwright Durham University

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