CURRICULUM VITAE PAUL TELLER June 2010

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1 PAUL TELLER June 2010 Department of Philosophy 2407 Elendil Lane University of California at Davis Davis, CA Davis, CA ACADEMIC TRAINING: B.A., Stanford, Mathematics, 1965 Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Philosophy, l969 ACADEMIC HONORS: Phi Beta Kappa Woodrow Wilson Fellow National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow PRESENT POSITION: Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of California at Davis MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: American Philosophical Association Philosophy of Science Association PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS: Member of the Governing Board of the Philosophy of Science Association, and Member of the Panel of Editorial Advisors for The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Associate Editor for Philosophy of Science, from September, 1994 to July 1999 Member Editorial Board for Philosophy of Science, From July 1999 Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, from May 1995

2 PAGE 2 Member of the Advisory Panel for the History and Philosophy of Science Section of the National Science Foundation; Calendar Years 1988, 1989, 1990 Affiliated Research Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, 1999 to present.

3 PAGE 3 PUBLICATIONS: Books A Modern Formal Logic Primer, Volumes I and II. Prentice Hall, 1989 An Interpretive Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Princeton University Press, 1995 Articles "Some Discussion and Extension of Manfred Bierwisch's Work on German Adjectivals", Foundations of Language, Vol. 6, (1969), "Goodman's Theory of Projection", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 20, (1969), "Epistemic Possibility", Philosophia, Vol. 2, No. 4, (October 1972), "Conditionalization and Observation", Synthese, (1973), "On Quine's Relativity of Ontology", Canadian Journal of Philosophy (December 1973), "On Why Questions", Nous, Vol. 8, (1974), "Essential Properties: Some Problems and Conjectures", Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 72, No. 9, (May 8, 1975), "Shimony's A Priori Arguments for Tempered Personalism", in Induction, Probability, and Confirmation: Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. VI, eds., G. Maxwell and R. M. Anderson, Jr., University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, (1975), "A Characterization of Conditional Probability", (with Arthur Fine), Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 48, No. 5, (November 1975), "Conditionalization, Observation, and Change of Preference", Foundations of Probability Theory, Statistical Inference, and Statistical Theories of Science, eds., W. Harper and C. Hooker, Vol. I, (Reidel, 1976), "Indicative Introduction", Philosophical Studies, Vol. 31, (1977),

4 PAGE 4 "On the Problem of Hidden Variables for Quantum Mechanical Observables with Continuous Spectra", Philosophy of Science, Vol. 44, No. 3, (1977), "Algebraic Constraints on Hidden Variables", (with Arthur Fine), Foundations of Physics, Vol. 8, Nos. 7/8 (1978), "Quantum Mechanics and the Nature of Continuous Physical Quantities", Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 76, No. 7, (1979), "Zealous Acceptance", Applications of Inductive Logic, eds., L. J. Cohen and M. Hesse, (Clarendon Press 1980), "The Projection Postulate and Bohr's Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics", in Proceedings of the 1980 Philosophy of Science Association Meetings, Vol. II, P. Asquith and R. Giere, Eds., (1981), "The Projection Postulate as a Fortuitous Approximation", Philosophy of Science, Vol. 50, No. 3, (1983), "The Projection Postulate of Quantum Mechanics: A New Perspective", Philosophy of Science, Vol. 51, No. 3, (1984), "A Poor Man's Guide to Supervenience and Determination", The Southern Journal of Philosophy, XXII, (1984). Supplement: Spindell Conference, 1983, l37-l62. Reprinted in a volume edited by "Is Supervenience Just Disguised Reduction?", The Southern Journal of Philosophy, XXIII, (1985), "Relational Holism and Quantum Mechanics", The British Journal for Philosophy of Science, Vol. 37, (1986), "Space-Time as a Physical Quantity", in Kelvin's Baltimore Lectures and Modern Theoretical Physics, R. Kargon and P. Achinstein eds., MIT Press, (1987), "Three Problems of Renormalization", in Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory, H. R. Brown and R. Harre, eds, Clarendon Press: Oxford, (1988), "Infinite Renormalization", Philosophy of Science, 56, (1989), "Relativity, Relational Holism, and the Bell Inequalities", in Philosophical Lessons from Quantum Theory, J. Cushing and E. McMullin eds., Notre Dame Press, (1989),

5 PAGE 5 "Subjectivity", in The Experience of Philosophy, Daniel Kolak and Raymond Martin, eds. Wadsworth, Belmont, (1990), pp (This is a very abbreviated version of "Subjectivity and Knowing What It's Like".) "A Prolegomenon to the Proper Interpretation of Quantum Field Theory", Philosophy of Science, 57, (1990), pp "What the Quantum Field Is Not", Philosophical Topics, Vol. 18, No. 2, (1990), (With Michael Redhead) "Particles, Particle Labels, and Quanta: The Toll of Unacknowledged Metaphysics", Foundations of Physics, Vol. 21, No. 1, (1991), "Substance, Relations, and Arguments About the Nature of Space-Time", The Philosophical Review, Vol. C, No. 3, (1991), Republished in J. Worrall, ed., The Ontology of Science, in the The International Research Library of Philosophy. Dartmouth Publishing Company, (1994). pp (With Michael Redhead) "Particle Labels and the Theory of Indistinguishable Particles in Quantum Mechanics", The British Journal for Philosophy of Science, Vol. 43, (1992), Republished in J. Worrall, ed., The Ontology of Science, in the The International Research Library of Philosophy. Dartmouth Publishing Company, (1994). pp "A Contemporary Look at Emergence", Emergence or Reduction? Essays on the Prospects of Nonreductive Physicalism, eds. Beckermann, Ansgar, Hans Flohr and Jaegwon Kim, Walter de Gruyter: Berlin and New York, (1992), "Subjectivity and Knowing What It's Like", Emergence or Reduction? Essays on the Prospects of Nonreductive Physicalism, A.Beckermann, H. Flohr, and J. Kim, eds.,walter de Gruyter: Berlin and New York, (1992), "Vacuum Concepts, Potentia, and the Quantum Field Theoretic Vacuum Explained for All", Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XVII, P. French, T. Uehling, Jr., and H. Wettstein, Jr., eds., Notre Dame Press, (1993), Reprinted in E. Gunzig and S. Diner, eds, Le Vide: Univers Du Tout et du Rien, Revue de L'Universite de Bruxelles (1998), pp (in French translation). "Wave and Particle Concepts In Quantum Field Theory", in Perspectives on Quantum Reality, R. Clifton, ed. Kluwer. 1996: pp

6 PAGE 6 "Quantum Mechanics and Haecceities" in Interpreting Bodies: Classical and Quantum Objects in Modern Physics, Elena Castellani, ed. Princeton University Press. (1998) pp "The Ineliminable Classical Face of Quantum Field Theory" in Tian Yu Cao, ed., Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Field Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1999, pp "Essay Review: A Metaphysics for Contemporary Field Theories, Review of How Is Quantum Field Theory Possible?, by Sunny Auyang", in Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, vol 28, 1997: pp "On Huggett and Weingard's Review of An Interpretive Introduction to Quantum Field Theory: Continuing the Discussion.", Philosophy of Science (1998) pp "The Gauge Argument" Philosophy of Science 67 (Proceedings) (2000) pp. S466-S481. "Against Against Overlap and Endurance" in Reality and Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis. Gerhard Preyer and Frank Siebelt, eds. Rowman and Littlefield, Pulishers Inc. Lanham, Maryland. (2001) pp "Twilight of the Perfect Model Model" Erkenntnis 55 (2001), pp "The Ins and Outs of Counterfactual Switching" Nous 35 (2001), pp "Whither Constructive Empiricism?" Philosophical Studies 106, (2001) pp "The Rotating Disk Argument and Humean Supervenience: Cutting the Gordian Knot" Analysis 62 (2002), PP "So What Is the Quantum Field?" in Meinard Kuhlmann, Holger Lyre and Andrew Wayne, eds, Ontological Aspects of Quantum Field Theory. World Scientific 2002 Andrew Wayne and Holger Lyre, eds... World Scientific, 2002: pp Essay Review of The Dappled World, by Nancy Cartwright, Nous, (2002) pp How We Dapple the World. Philosophy of Science, 71 (October 2004) pp What is a Stance? Philosophical Studies, 121, , 2004 The Law Idealization Philosophy of Science, 71 (December 2004) pp

7 PAGE 7 Of Course Idealizations are Incommensurable! in Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison: Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities? edited by Léna Soler, Howard Sankey and Paul Hoyningen-Huene: Kluwer, 2008: pp Representation in Science in The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd eds. Routledge (2008) pp The FineWright Theory In Stephan Hartman, Cart Hoefer anmd Luc Bovens eds., Nancy Cartwright's Philosophy of Science. Routledge. 2008: pp Fictions, Fictionalization, and Truth in Science in Fictions in Science: Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealization, Mauricio Suarez, ed, Routledge 2009, pp Provisional Knowledge. In Constituting Objectivity: Transcendental Perspectives on Modern Physics. Edited by Michel Bitbol, Pierre Kerszberg, and Jean Petitot. Springer, 2009, pp Learning to Live with Voluntarism Synthese: Special Issue, Stance and Rationality: A Perspectivd, eds: Daniel Rowbottom and Otavio Bueno (DOI /s ) Robots, Action, and the Essential Indexical To appear in Philosophical Studies Saving the Phenomena Today to appear in Philosophy of Science Mechanism, Reduction, and Emergence in Two Stories of the Human Epistemic Enterprise In press In Manuscript Two Models of Truth Modeling the Conception of Truth Modeling and Philosophy Unification and Mechanism Discussion Notes and Reference Articles "Professor Fetzer on Epistemic Possibility", Philosophia, (April, 1974),

8 PAGE 8 "Comments on 'Confirmation and Parsimony'", Induction, Probability, and Confirmation:Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. VI, eds., G. Maxwell and R. M. Anderson, Jr., University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, (1975), "Comments on 'On a K-Dimensional System of Induction Logic' and 'Induction and Causality in Cellular Space'", in PSA 1976: Proceedings of the 1976 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vol. II, eds., Frederic Suppe and Peter D. Asquith, (1977), "Response to Comments on Professor Kyburg", in Foundations of Probability Theory, Statistical Inference and Statistical Theories of Science, Vol. I, eds., W. Harper and C. Hooker, Reidel, (1976), "Computer Proof", Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 77, (1980), "Quantum Physics, The Identity of Indiscernibles, and Some Unanswered Questions", Philosophy of Science, Vol. 50, No. 2, (1983), 309-3l9. "Comments on Cushing's 'Models, High-Energy Theoretical Physics and Realism' and Redhead's 'Quantum Field Theory for Philosophers'", in Proceedings of the 1982 Philosophy of Science Association Meetings, P. Asquith and T. Nickels, eds., (1983), "Comments on Kim's Paper", The Southern Journal of Philosophy, XXII (1984). Supplement: Spindell Conference, 1983, Supervenience entry in Blackwell Companion to Metaphysics, ed. by Sosa and Kim. Oxford: Blackwell 1995 "Reduction", The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Robert Audi (ed.), Cambridge University Press pp "Field Theory", The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Robert Audi (ed.), Cambridge University Press pp "Supervenience",in A Companion to Metaphysics, J. Kim and E. Sosa, eds. Blackwells, Oxford. 1995: pp "Quantum Field Theory", in Edward Craig, ed., The Routlege Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge, London : vol 3, pp "The Philosopher Problem", in Rise of the Standard Model, L. Hoddeson, L.Brown, M. Dresden and W. Riordan, eds. Cambridge University Press. 1997: pp

9 PAGE 9 Unity and Disunity in Science To appear in the new Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy Truth and Fiction in Science to appear in Science et Avenir Supervenience. Entry to appear in 2 nd Edition of Blackwell s A companion to Metaphysics, ed. by Gary Rosenkrantz. Oxford: Blackwell Reviews Review of The Legacy of Logical Positivism, P. Achinstein and P. Barker, eds., The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 22, No. 1, (February 1971), Review of Ontological Relativity and Other Essays, by W. V. Quine in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 22, No. 4, (November 1971), Review of Concepts of Science, by P. Achinstein, Philosophical Review, (January 1973), Review of Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability, eds., Carnap and Jeffrey, The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 71, No. 1, (January 1974), Review of Truth, Probability, and Paradox, by J. L. Mackie, Philosophical Review, (April 1975), Review of Reduction in the Physical Sciences, by Ronald Yoshida, Nous, Vol. 9, No. 1, (March 1980). Review of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, by Karl Lambert and Gordon G. Brittan, Jr. in The Journal of Symbolic Logic, Vol, 47, No. 2, (June 1982), Review of The Shaky Game: Einstein, Realism, and the Quantum Theory, by Arthur Fine, Philosophy of Science, 55, (March 1988), pp Review of Explaining Science: A Cognative Approach, by Ronald N. Giere, Philosophy of Science, 57, (1990), Review of Fact and Method: Explanation, Confirmation, and Reality in the Natural and the Social Sciences, by Richard W Miller, The Philosophical Reivew, 49, (1990), Review of World Enough and Space-Time, by J. Earman, Foundations of Physics, 20 (1990),

10 PAGE 10 Review of Reading The Book of Nature, by Peter Kosso, The Americal Journal of Psychology, Review of Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist View, by Bas van Fraassen. The Philosophical Reivew. (1995) pp Review of From Physics to Metaphysics, by Michael Redhead. The Philosophical Review. (1997) pp Review of Models as Mediators: Perspectives on Natural and Social Science, Mary S. Morgan and Margaret Morrison, eds. Internaltional Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 15 (2001), pp Review of Philosophy of Physics, by Roberto Torretti, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 33, (2002) pp FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS: NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, ACLS Study Fellowship, NEH Fellowships for Independent Study and Research, , 1995 NSF Scholar's Awards; , , 1990, and 2000 NSF Summer Research Grants, Summers of 1972, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, and 1986