CURRICULUM VITAE

PAUL WILLIAM HUMPHREYS

Department of Philosophy, 120 Cocke Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4780.

DATE OF BIRTH: January l7 l950.

EDUCATION: Ph.D., Philosophy, Stanford University, l976.

M.S., Statistics, Stanford University, l974.

M.A., Philosophy, Stanford University, l974.

B.Sc., Logic and Physics, University of Sussex, l97l.

EMPLOYMENT: Professor, University of Virginia, 1991-

Associate Professor, University of Virginia, l984-1991.

Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, l978-84.

Research Associate, Sociology Department, Stanford University, Fall l975.

Visiting appointments at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris; Institut d'Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris; UCLA (twice); Stanford University; University of Arizona; University of Pittsburgh (Center for Philosophy of Science and Philosophy Department); C.S.U. Long Beach.

BOOKS:

Emergence: Contemporary Readings in Science and Philosophy (edited collection, with Mark Bedau). MIT Press (hardback and paperback editions, April 2008)

Extending Ourselves: Computational Science, Empiricism, and Scientific Method . Oxford University Press, 2004. (Paperback edition, 2007)

The New Theory of Reference (edited collection, with James Fetzer). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. (Paperback edition, 1999)

Patrick Suppes, Scientific Philosopher (edited collection). Volume 1: Probability and Probabilistic Causality. Volume 2: Philosophy of Physics, Theory Structure, Measurement Theory. Volume 3: Philosophy of Language, Logic, Action and Learning Theory. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.

The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical, and Physical Sciences. Princeton University Press, l989. (Paperback edition, 1992) [Portions reprinted in Scientific Inquiry, Robert Klee (ed). Oxford: Oxford University Press].

ARTICLES:

`The Philosophical Novelty of Computer Simulation Methods', Synthese (to appear).

`Synchronic and Diachronic Emergence', Minds and Machines (to appear)

`Computational Economics' in Oxford Handbook on Philosophy and Economics, Harold Kincaid and Don Ross (eds). Oxford; Oxford University Press (to appear).

`Causation and Reduction' in Oxford Handbook on Causation, Peter Menzies and Christopher Hitchcock (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press (to appear).

`Computational Science and Its Effects', ZiF Mitteilungen, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld, 2008.

`Probability Theory and Its Models' pp. 1-11 in Probability and Statistics: Essays in Honor of David A. Freedman, Terry Speed and Deborah Nolan (eds). Institute of Mathematical Statistics Collections, 2007.

`Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov', New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribners and Sons, 2007.

`Self-Assembling Systems', Philosophy of Science 73 (2006)

`Epistemolog del Siglo XXI' Anthropos 214 (2007)(in Spanish)

`Foreword' to Four Decades of Scientific Explanation by Wesley Salmon. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006.

`Invariance, Explanation, and Understanding' Metascience 15 (2006), pp. 39-44.

Articles on `Emergence', `Patrick Suppes', and `Wesley Salmon' in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy(Second Edition), Donald Borchert (ed). New York: MacMillan, 2006.

`Teorías de caución y explicación:¿necesariamente verdaderas o dominio-específicas?' in pp. 19-33 in Causalidad y explicación: Homenaje a Wesley Salmon. Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofia 37, José Díez Calzada and Carl Hoefer (eds). Bellaterra: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2006. ( in Spanish and Catalan) Also appeared in English as London School of Economics Technical Report CTR 15-04.

Articles on `Closure', `Crucial Experiments', `Definitions: Explicit and Implicit', `Falsifiability', `Observation and Theory', `Scientific Revolutions', `Theory-Ladenness' for The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (Second Edition), Ted Honderich (ed). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

`Some Thoughts on Wes Salmon's Contributions to the Philosophy of Probability', Philosophy of Science 71 (2004) pp. 942-949.

`Some Considerations on Conditional Chance' British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55(2004),pp. 667-680.

`Scientific Knowledge' in The Handbook of Epistemology. I. Niiniluoto, M. Sintonen, and J. Wolenski (eds). Dordrect: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.

`Computational Models', Philosophy of Science 69 (2002), pp. S1-S11.

`Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences'' in Guidebook to the Philosophy of Social Science, P. Roth and S. Turner (eds). Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

`Analytic and Synthetic Understanding'' in Science, Explanation, and Rationality: The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel. J. Fetzer (ed). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

`Extending Ourselves'' in Science at Century's End: Philosophical Questions on the Progress and Limits of Science. J. Massey et al (eds). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999.

`Probability: Interpretations of' in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, E. Craig (ed), Routledge, 1999. Reprinted in abbreviated form in The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy and in its entirety in The Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

`Are There Algorithms that Discover Causal Structure?'' (with David Freedman) Synthese 121(1999), pp. 29-54. (Earlier version appeared as "Rejoinder to Korb and Wallace and to Spirtes, Glymour, and Scheines" U.C. Berkeley, Dept of Statistics, Technical Report #514, March 1998.)

`Causation' in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, W.H. Newton-Smith (ed), Blackwells, 1999

"Instrumentation and Observation" in M. Dalla Chiara, R. Guintini, F. Landisa (eds), Philosophy of Science in Florence, 1995.Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998

"Sociological Models", pp. 253-264, in P. Blau and A. Sica (eds). What is Social Theory?: The Philosophical Debates. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.

`Emergence, Not Supervenience', Philosophy of Science 64 (1997), pp.. S337-S345

"How Properties Emerge", Philosophy of Science 64 (1997), pp. 1-17.

`Escaping the Propositional Prison`, The Monist 80 (1997), pp.368-388.

"A Critical Appraisal of Causal Discovery Algorithms", pp. 249-263 in Causality in Crisis?: Statistical Methods and the Search for Causal Knowledge in the Social Sciences. Vaughn. McKim and Stephen Turner (eds). University of Notre Dame Press, 1997.

"The Grand Leap" (with David Freedman) British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 47(1996) pp. 113-123.

`Aspects of Emergence',Philosophical Topics 24 (1996), pp. 53-70.

Articles on Alonzo Church, John von Neumann, and Wesley Salmon in The Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth Century Philosophers, S. Brown et al (eds). Routledge (1996).

"Understanding in the Not-So-Special Sciences", Southern Journal of Philosophy,XXIV(Supplement) (1995), pp. 99-114.

"Computational Empiricism" Foundations of Science, 1 (1995), pp. 119-130. [Reprinted in Topics in the Foundations of Statistics, Bas van Fraassen (ed). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996]

"Computational Science and Scientific Method", Minds and Machines 5 (1995), pp. 499-512.

"Abstract and Concrete", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55(1995), pp. 157-161.

`Philosophy of Science' in The Encyclopedia of Bioethics, Warren Reich (editor). (1st and 2nd editions) New York: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1995. Updated version in 3rd edition, 2003.

"Numerical Experimentation" in Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher, Volume 2. P. Humphreys (ed.). Kluwer Academic Press, Dordrecht, 1994.

"Greater Unification Equals Greater Understanding?" Analysis 53 (1993), pp. 183-188.

"Seven Theses on Thought Experiments" in Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External World: Essays Concerning the Philosophy of Adolf Grüünbaum, G. Massey, A. Janis, N. Rescher (eds). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993. (European edition, Konstanz: Universitäätsverlag Konstanz, 1993).

"Computer Simulation" pp. 497-506 in PSA 1990, Volume 2, A. Fine, M. Forbes, and L. Wessels, (eds), East Lansing, Philosophy of Science Association, 1991.

"A Conjecture Concerning the Ranking of the Sciences", Topoi 8 (1990), pp. 67-70.

"Scientific Explanation: The Causes, Some of the Causes, and Nothing but the Causes" inMinnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XIII. P. Kitcher and W. Salmon (eds). University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1989.

`Degenerescence (Lakatos)'; Dependence functionelle et explication functionelle'; and `Niveau d'explication' in Encyclopedie Philosophique, Vol II, Andre Jacob (Directeur de la Publication), Presses Universitaires de France, l989.

"Causal, Structural, and Scientific Realisms" pp. 24l-252 in Midwest Studies in Philosophy XII, P. French, T. Uehling, and H. Wettstein (eds.). University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, l988.

"Sull'Interpretazione dei Modelli Causali" pp. 113-129 in Epistemologia ed economia, M.C. Galavotti and G. Gambetta (eds), CLUEB Editrice Bologna, Bologna, l988.

"Non-Nietzschean Decision Making" pp. 253-268 in Probability and Causality. J. Fetzer (ed). Dordrecht: D. Reidel and Company, l988.

`Induction' in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Theory and Doctrine, J. Eatwell, M. Milgate, and P. Newman (eds.). The MacMillan Press, London, l988. [Reprinted in The New Palgrave: Selected Reprints, Utility and Probability. The MacMillan Press, l990.]

"How Scientific Is Quantitative Risk Analysis?" in Biomedical Ethics Reviews l986 R. Almeder and J. Humber (eds.). Clifton, N.J.:Humana Press.

"Quantitative Probabilistic Causality and Structural Scientific Realism" pp. 329-342 in PSA 1984,Proceedings of the l984 Biennial Meetings, Volume 2: Symposia, P. Asquith and P. Kitcher (eds). Philosophy of Science Association, East Lansing, l986.

"Causality in the Social Sciences: An Overview" Synthese 68 (l986), pp.l-l2.

"Why Propensities Cannot Be Probabilities", The Philosophical Review 94 (l985), pp.557-570.

"Philosophical Explanations and Scientific Explanations", pp. l72-l89 in Principles of Philosophical Reasoning, J.H. Fetzer (ed.), A.P.Q. Library of Philosophy. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, l984.

"Aleatory Explanations Expanded", pp. 208-223 in PSA 1982, Proceedings of the l982 Biennial Meetings, Volume 2: Symposia, P. Asquith and T. Nickles (eds.). East Lansing: Philosophy of Science Association, l983.

"Probabilistic Causality and Multiple Causation", pp. 25-37 in PSA 1980, Proceedings of the l980 Biennial Meeting, Volume 2: Symposia, P. Asquith and R. Giere (eds.). Philosophy of Science Association, East Lansing, l98l.

"Aleatory Explanations", Synthese 48 (l98l), pp.225-232. [Reprinted in Theory, Evidence and Explanation. P. Lipton (ed). Dartmouth Publishing Company, 1995.]

"Is `Physical Randomness' Just Indeterminism in Disguise?", pp. 98-ll3 in PSA 1978, Proceedings of the l978 Biennial Meeting, Volume 2: Symposia, P. Asquith and Ian Hacking (eds.). East Lansing: Philosophy of Science Association, l98l.

"Theoretical Consequences of the Status Characteristics Formulation" (with Joseph Berger),American Journal of Sociology 86 (l98l), pp. 953-983.

"Cutting the Causal Chain" Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 6l (l980), pp. 305-3l4.

"A Note on Demopoulos' Paper "Locality and the Algebraic Structure of Quantum Mechanics", pp. l45-l47 in Studies in the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Patrick Suppes (ed.). East Lansing: Philosophy of Science Association, l980.

"Randomness, Independence, and Hypotheses" Synthese 36 (l977), pp.4l5-426.

REVIEWS: Review of Models as Mediators, M.Morgan and M. Morrison (eds). Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 33B (2002), pp. 374-377.

Review Essay on Causation and Explanation by Wesley Salmon. The Journal of Philosophy 97(2000).

Review of Four Decades of Scientific Explanation by Wesley Salmon; Mind. (1992).

Review of Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences by Jon Elster. Philosophy of the Social Sciences(1991).

Review of Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World by Wesley Salmon;Foundations of Physics (l986).

Review of One World and Our Knowledge of It by Jay F. Rosenberg; British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 34 (l983).

Review of Hans Reichenbach: Logical Empiricist, W. Salmon (ed.); Philosophy of Science 49(l982).

Review of Science, Belief, and Behaviour: Essays in Honour of R.B. Braithwaite, D.H. Mellor (ed.);Philosophical Review 9l(l982).

Review of Inference, Method, and Decision by Roger Rosenkrantz; International Studies in Philosophy l3 (l980).

Review of Plausible Reasoning by Nicholas Rescher; Journal of Symbolic Logic 43 (l978).

OTHER PUBLICATIONS: "Rationality and the New Philosophy of Science", Loki Science Magazine, May l983.

"Runway" pp. 72-74 in See 'Ville Run: A Collection of Running Tales. Heather H. Ramsey (ed). Charlottesville: Pathbinder Publishing, 2005.

GRANTS AND AWARDS:

Invited participant, National Academy of Sciences Keck Futures Initiative on Complexity, U.S. Irvine, November 2008

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2008-2009.

Professeur des Universités 1ère classe, Ecole Normale Superieure ,June 2008.

NSF Scholars Award `Concepts of Dynamic Emergence' for Spring 2006.

Chercheur associé étranger research fellowship, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, September 1 2005-November 30 2006.

Co-Director (with William Wimsatt) Two conferences on Modelling and Simulation, March 1998 and October 1998. NSF Grant SES 9618078.

NSF Travel Award, Summer 1995.

IUHPS/AFOS Grant, Summer 1994.

ACLS Travel Award, Summer 1994.

NSF Research Grant SBER93-11982 "Levels of Scientific Understanding" Summer 1993.

Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers "Explanation, Causation and Empiricism". University of Virginia, June 10 - August 2, 1991. Repeated in new form as "Causation, Explanation and Empiricism" University of Virginia, June 19 - August 11, 1995.

NSF Research Grant DIR-89-ll393 "Methodological Issues in Computer Simulation", Summers l989, l990.

Project Director, NEH conference on The Autonomy of Philosophy. University of Virginia, April l986.

NSF Scholars Award SES 84-l0898 "The Bearing of Formal Methods in the Social Sciences on the Unity of Science Thesis" l984-85.

Fellowship, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, l983-84.

Sesquicentennial Awards, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Virginia, l983-84, Fall 1990, Spring 1996, Fall 2001, Fall 2008.

National Science Foundation Research Grant SES-82-05563, Summer l983.

University of Virginia Faculty Research Awards, Summer l982, Summer l988, Summer 1996.

National Science Foundation Research Grant SOC-77-08837, Summer l978.

Fulbright-Hays Travel Award l97l.

English Speaking Union Fellow l97l.

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC:

Series Editor, Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Science 1999-

Vice-President, Association for the Foundations of Science, 1995-99.

Executive and Founding Editor, Foundations of Science, 1993-1998.

Editor, Synthese, 1990-1998. Area editor, General philosophy of science and methodology, 2007 - ; Review Editor,l988-1998.

Editorial Boards, Philosophy of Science, 1991- ; Foundations of Science, 1999- ; Consulting Editor, Episteme, 2003-.American Philosophical Quarterly l985-89, 1990-93, 1999-2006;

National Board of Officers, American Philosophical Association, July 2007-

Chair, Committee on International Cooperation, American Philosophical Association, July 2007-July 2010

Governing Board, Philosophy of Science Association, 1997-2001.

Chairman, Nominating Committee, Philosophy of Science Association l988-89.

National Review Panel, Philosophy Fellowships, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2005; NEH Philosophy and Religion Summer Seminars, 1992, 1995.

Associate, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1995-

Chair, Philosophy of Science Association Essay Prize Competitions 1998, 2004.

Philosophy Documentation Center Governing Board, 2001-

University of Virginia: Chairman, Philosophy Department, 1996-97; 1999- 2004. Summer Chairman, l980, l98l, 1999-2001, 2002-2004. Director of Undergraduate Studies, l98l-83, 85-89, 92-94. Director of Graduate Studies, 1989-90, 1994-95. Cognitive Science Program Supervisory Committee 1992-. Arts & Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee 1994, 1995. Lower Division Advisor, l98l-83, 2002-. Echols Scholars advisor 1993- . Faculty Associate, Echols-Humphreys Association, l982-83. Various other UVA committees.

SELECTED TALKS AND LECTURES

University of Hyderabad, India, December 2008, title TBA

`Templates, Complexity, and Automated Science', APCAP, Indian Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India.

`Endogenous Uncertainty and the Dynamics of Social Constraints', poster presentation at National Academy of Sciences Keck Futures Initiative on Complexity Theory, November 2008

`Computational Epistemology: Avoiding the Anthropocentric Trap', Conference on Simulations and Social Epistemology, University of Leuven, October 2008

`Emergence', Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago, October 2008.

`Analytic Metaphysics and Scientific Metaphysics', Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, June 2008

`Propensities and Probabilities', IHPST, Paris, June 2008

`On Computational Templates, IHPST, Paris, June 2008

`A Defence of Ontological Emergence', International School on Complexity 9 :Emergence in the Physical and Biological Worlds, Ettore Majorana Foundation, Sicily, April 2008.

`Computational Templates: Representation and Application', University of Helsinki, November 2007.

`Theories for Agent Based Simulations' Models and Simulation 2, Tilburg University, Netherlands, October 2007.

Presentation at Idealizations Workshop, Tilburg University, Netherlands, October 2007.

`Computational Science as a Revolutionary Development' ZiF, Bielefeld, Germany, September 2007.

`Three Concepts of Emergence' Ohio University, September 2007, Virginia Commonwealth University, January 2008, University of Chicago, February 2008.

`Computational Templates as Representations' 7^th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, University of Illinois, May 2007.

Presentation of an agent based model of constrained search strategies (with Tiha von Ghyczy), Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, February 2007.

Presentation at Symposium on Complex Systems Engineering, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, January 2007.

`Computational and Conceptual Emergence', Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meetings, Vancouver, November 2006.

`Computational Templates as Cross-Disciplinary Bridges', Unity of Science Conference, Lisbon, October 2006.

`Synchronic and Diachronic Emergence' Philosophy Department, University of Pennsylvania, September 2006.

`Philosophy of Computational Modeling', Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, September 2006.

`Computer Simulations and the Philosophy of Science', North American Computing and Philosophy Conference, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, August 2006. Abbreviated version given at HOPOS meetings, Paris, June 2006.

`Some Methodological Issues in Computer Simulations', Keynote Address, First Annual Conference on Philosophical Issues in Models and Simulations, Paris, June 2006.

`From Telescopes to Transhumans', Western Michigan University, February, 2006.

`Computer Assisted Mathematics', Invited Address, Philosophy of Mathematics Special Interest Group at American Mathematical Society/Mathematical Association of America Joint Meetings, San Antonio, January 2006.

`Some Philosophical Issues in Computer Simulations' (discussion with Peter Galison), IHPST, November 2006.

`Comments on Jean-Paul Delahaye's `Ressemblance entre objets', Ecole Normal Superieur, September 2005.

`Horizontal Emergence', Rutgers/Columbia conference on philosophy of physics, April 2005; symposium at APA Central Division meetings, April 2005, London School of Economics, June 2006.

`Response to Paul Teller and to Malcolm Forster', Author Meets Critics session on Extending Ourselves, APA Pacific Division meetings, San Francisco, March 2005.

`Computational Science', University of Maryland, College Park, February 2005

`Self-Assembling Systems', symposium at Philosophy of Science Association meetings, Austin, Texas,November 2004

`Genetic Engineering, Nanotechnology, and the Human Future' University of Virginia, June 2004.

Comments on James Woodward's Making Things Happen, Author Meets Critics session, APA Central Division meetings, April 2004.

`Pattern Emergence', conference on emergence, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, University of Paris I, April 2004; revised version given at Yale University, October 2004 and Western Michigan University, February 2006.

`Conflicts in Knowledge' New Literary History symposium, University of Virginia, October 2003.

`Theories of Causation and Explanation: Contingently or Necessarily True?' conference on Wesley Salmon's work, Barcelona, August 2003.

`Computer Modelling', conference on simulation and representation, ZiF, Bielefeld, Germany, June 2003.

`Two Models of Emergence', Center for Complex Systems, University of Michigan, March 2003.

`Metaphors as Thought Amplifiers', Santa Fe Institute, February 2003.

`A Taxonomy of Constraints' conference on Space and Constraints, University of Virginia, August 2002.

`Philosophical Aspects of Causal Inference', Graduate Student Summer Workshop on Methodology, Population Research Institute, Penn State University, July 2002.

`Agent-Based Models for Imitation and Strategy', University of Konstanz, June 2002

`Chances', All Souls College, Oxford, April 2002; University of Konstanz Philosophy Department, June 2002; University of Michigan Philosophy Department, March 2003.

Invited participant, National Cancer Institute Conference on Causal Inference, Snowbird, Utah, August 2001

`Automated Causal Reasoning'' talk to UVA Cognitive Science Workshop, April 2001

`Judea Pearl''s Account of Causality'', Pacific Division APA meetings, March 2001

`Empiricism and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge'', Limits of Scientific Knowledge Workshop, University of Pittsburgh, February 2001.

`Twenty-First Century Empiricism'' (3 lectures), Third Summer School on the Theory of Knowledge, Warsaw, Poland, August 2000.

`Complexity as a Modeling Tool'', University of Virginia Systems Engineering Department, March 2000.

`Scientific Empiricism'', Johns Hopkins University, April 2000 and University of Virginia, February 2000.

[Revised September 2008]