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title: "Craig Callender"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Callender"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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Craig Callender (born 1968) is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. His main areas of research are philosophy of science, philosophy of physics and metaphysics.
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== Education and career ==
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Callender obtained his PhD in 1997 from Rutgers University with a thesis entitled Time's Arrow under the supervision of Robert Weingard. From 1996-2000, he worked in the Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. Currently, he is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego where he is also the co-director of the Institute for Practical Ethics at the University of California, San Diego. Callender serves on the Committee for Freedom and Responsibility of Science of the International Science Council.
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Callender has written articles for Scientific American on the philosophy of time and participated in the World Science Festival 2013 with Tim Maudlin and Max Tegmark on the same topic.
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== Selected publications ==
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In reverse chronological order, unless otherwise specified.
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=== Books ===
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Callender, Craig (2017). What Makes Time Special? Oxford University Press, Oxford, ISBN 978-0-19-879730-2
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Callender, Craig, ed. (2011). The Oxford handbook of philosophy of time. Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-929820-4.
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Craig Callender (ed.): Time, Reality and Experience, Cambridge University Press, August 2002, ISBN 978-0-521-52967-9
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Craig Callender, Nick Huggett (eds.): Physics meets philosophy at the Planck scale: contemporary theories in quantum gravity, Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-521-66280-X / ISBN 0-521-66445-4
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Craig Callender, Ralph Edney: Introducing time, Totem Books, 1997, ISBN 978-1-84046-263-0
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=== Articles ===
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Callender, Craig (June 2010). "Is time an illusion?". Scientific American. 302 (6): 40–47. Bibcode:2010SciAm.302f..58C. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0610-58. PMID 20521481.
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Craig Callender, Robert Weingard: Topology change and the unity of space, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 227–246, 2000, full text
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Craig Callender, Robert Weingard: Nonlocality in the expanding infinite well, Foundations of Physics Letters, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 495–498, 1998, full text
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Robert Weingard, Craig Callender: Trouble in paradise: Problems for Bohm's theory, The Monist, Quantum Mechanics and the Real World, vol. 80, no. 1 January 1997, abstract (in French language)
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Craig Callender, Robert Weingard: Time, Bohm's theory, and quantum cosmology, Philosophy of Science, vol. 63, September 1996, pp. 470–474, abstract
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Craig Callender, Robert Weingard: Bohmian cosmology and the quantum smearing of the initial singularity (communicated by Peter R. Holland), Physics Letters A, Volume 208, Issues 1-2, 20 November 1995, pp. 59–61, abstract
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Craig Callender, Robert Weingard: The Bohmian model of quantum cosmology, Philosophy of Science Association, PSA 1994, Vol. 1, pp. 218–227, abstract
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== References ==
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== External links ==
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C. Callendar (USCD)
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C. Callendar, publications list (USCD)
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C. Callendar, publications list (University of California Irvine)
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Discussion on Philosophy TV with Sean Carroll |