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Hoefer, Carl
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ICREA Research Professor at UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Humanities
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After studying Mathematics and Philosophy at Rice University, I did my PhD in Philosophy at Stanford University, under the direction of Peter Galison and Nancy Cartwright. My first academic position was Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the University of California, Riverside. In 1998 I was promoted to Associate Professor (tenured), but decided to leave UCR later that year to take a position in the London School of Economics. There I was Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer in the department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method. In 2001-2002, just before joining ICREA, I became Director of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences at LSE (CPNSS). Since autumn of 2002 I have been an ICREA and member of the UAB philosophy department. In 2005 I became coordinator of the research group GRECC based at the UAB. And since June 2009, I am also Editor in Chief of a new international journal, the European Journal for Philosophy of Science, published by Springer.
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Research Interests
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My research addresses age-old metaphysical questions by examining the metaphysics of nature that flows from our best scientific theories. In particular, I work on the nature of space, time and motion as revealed by physics (especially, Einsteins theories of relativity); and on the nature of objective probability as revealed by its uses in many branches of science and other human activities.
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KeyWords
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Space, time, probability, chance, relativity, physics
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