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SIMON SAUNDERS
Curriculum Vitae
CONTACT
Philosophy Centre, 10 Merton St., Oxford OX1 4JJ
e-mail: [email protected] website: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lina0174/Saunders.html
BIRTHDATE, BIRTHPLACE, NATIONALITY
August 30, 1954; London, England; UK
MARRIAGE, CHILDREN
Dr Kalypso Nicolaidis, Ari Saunders (10), Daphne Saunders (7).
CURRENT POSITION
Professor of Philosophy of Physics, 2008- University of Oxford
Reader in Philosophy of Physics, 2001-8 University of Oxford
Lecturer in Philosophy of Science, 1996-2001 University of Oxford
Fellow of Linacre College, 1996PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
1995-96: Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University.
1990-95: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University.
VISITING POSITIONS:
Spring 2005 Short Term Visitor, Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics
Spring 2005, Green College Lecturer, University of British Columbia
Autumn 2004, Visiting Fellow, Ecole Polytechnique
Autumn 2001, Visiting Professor, Harvard University
Autumn 1998, Visiting Professor, Harvard University.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
2007-2008: FQX(i) award, „Everett@50‟.
2005: AHRB Research Fellowship
2002-2003, Leverhulme Research Fellow, University of Oxford.
1989-1990, Research Fellow, Sidney Edelstein Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem.
1988-89, Senior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford.
1988-89, Fellowship, "Thank Offering to Britain", British Academy.
1985-89, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford.
DEGREES:
PhD, Mathematical and Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory, 1989, Department of
History and Philosophy of Science, Kings College, London (supervised by Professor Michael
Redhead).
Part 3, Mathematics Tripos, Christ's College, Cambridge, 1977.
BA, New College, Oxford, Physics and Philosophy, 1976.
BOOKS
2008 Many Worlds?: Everett, quantum theory, and realism, S. Saunders, J. Barrett, A. Kent, and D.
Wallace (eds), Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
The Philosophy of Vacuum, S. Saunders and H. Brown (eds.),Clarendon Press, Oxford 1991.
RESEARCH ARTICLES
2009a „Many Worlds? an Introduction‟, in Many Worlds?: Everett, quantum theory, and realism,, S.
Saunders, J. Barrett, A. Kent, and D. Wallace (eds), Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
2009b „Chance in the Everett interpretation‟, in Many Worlds?: Everett, quantum theory, and
realism,, S. Saunders, J. Barrett, A. Kent, and D. Wallace (eds), Oxford: Oxford University Press
(forthcoming).
2008b (with F. Muller), „Distinguishing Fermions‟, British Journal of Philosophy of Science, 59, 499548.
2008a (with D. Wallace) „Branching and Uncertainty‟, British Journal of Philosophy of Science, 59,
293-305. Available on-line at: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00003383/
2007 „Mirroring as an A Priori Symmetry‟, Philosophy of Science, 74, 452-480.
2006a) „On the Explanation for Quantum Statistics‟, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern
Physics, 37, 192-211. Available online at http://xxxx.arXiv.org/quant-ph/0511136..
(2006b) „Are Quantum Particles Objects?‟, Analysis, 66, 52-63.
(2005a) „Complementarity and Scientific Rationality‟, Foundations of Physics, 35, 347-72. Available
online at http://xxxx.arXiv.org/quant-ph/0412195.
2005b „What is Probability?‟, in Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics, A. Elitzur, S. Dolev, and N.
Kolenda, eds., Springer..
2004a „Derivation of the Born Rule from Operational Assumptions‟, Proceedings of the Royal Society
A, 460, 1-18.
2003a: „Physics and Leibniz‟s Principles‟, in Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections, K.
Brading and E. Castellani, eds., Cambridge University Press
2003c „Structural Realism, Again‟, Synthese, 136, 127-33.
2003d „Indiscernibles, General Covariance, and Other Symmetries: the Case for Non-reductive
Relationalism', in Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honour of John
Stachel, A. Ashtekar, D. Howard, J. Renn, S. Sarkar, and A. Shimony, (eds.), Kluwer.
2002a „Is the Zero-Point Energy Real?‟, in Ontological Aspects of Quantum Field Theory, M.
Kuhlmann, H. Lyre, and A. Wayne, (eds)., Singapore: World Scientific.
2002b, „Why Relativity Contradicts Presentism‟, Time, Reality, and Experience, C. Callender, ed.,
Cambridge University Press, 2002. Reprinted in Time and Physics: Volume 4 of he Philosophy of
Time , N. Oaklander, ed., Routledge: forthcoming.
2001a „Space-Time and Probability', in Chance in Physics: Foundations and Perspectives, J.
Bricmont, D. Dürr, M.C. Galavotti, G. Ghirardi, F. Petruccione, N. Zanghi (eds.), Springer-Verlag,.
2000 „Tense and Indeterminateness', Philosophy of Science (Proceedings), 67, S600-611.
1999 „The "Beables" of Relativistic Pilot-Wave Theory', in From Physics to Philosophy, J.
Butterfield, and C. Pagonis, (eds.), Cambridge University Press.
1998a „Hertz's Principles', in Heinrich Hertz: Classical Physicist, Modern Philosopher, D. Baird et
al, (eds.), Kluwer.
1998b‟Time, Quantum Mechanics, and Probability', Synthese, 114, p.405-44.
1996a „Time, Quantum Mechanics, and Tense', Synthese, 107, 19-53.
1996b „Naturalizing Metaphysics', The Monist, 80, p.44-69.
1995a „Time, Quantum Mechanics, and Decoherence', Synthese, 102, 235-66, 1995.
1995b „Relativism', in Perspectives on Quantum Reality, R. Clifton, ed., Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1995,
p.125-42.
1994a „A Dissolution of the Problem of Locality", Philosophy of Science (Proceedings), Vol.2,
p.88-98.
1994b „Time and Quantum Mechanics', in Physics and the Now, M. Bitbol, ed., Editions Frontieres,
Paris, p.21-70.
1994c 'What is the Problem of Measurement', Harvard Review of Philosophy, Spring 1994.
1994d „Decoherence and Evolutionary Adaptation', Physics Letters A 184, p.1-5.
1994e `Remarks on Decoherent Histories Theory and the Problem of Measurement', in Stochastic
Evolution of Quantum States in Open Systems and in Measurement Processes, L. Di¢si, ed., p.94-105,
World Scientific, Singapore.
1993a „Decoherence, Relative States, and Evolutionary Adaptation', Foundations of Physics, 23,
1553-1585.
1993b „To What Physics Corresponds', in Correspondence, Invariance, and Heuristics; Essays in
Honour of Heinz Post, S. French and H. Kaminga, (eds.), Kluwer, p.295-326.
1992 „Locality, Complex Numbers, and Relativistic Quantum Theory', Proceedings of the Philosophy
of Science Association, Vol.1, 1992, p.365-380.
1991 „The Negative Energy Sea', in Philosophy of Vacuum, S. Saunders and H. Brown (eds.),
Clarendon Press, 1991, p.65-110.
1991 „Reflections on Ether' (with H. Brown), in Philosophy of Vacuum, p.27-64.
1988 „The Algebraic Approach to Quantum Field Theory', in Philosophical Foundations of
Quantum Field Theory, H. Brown and R. Harre (eds.), Clarendon Press.
REVIEWS AND HANDBOOKS
2008a „Introduction: the Everett Interpretation‟, in Many Worlds?: Everett, quantum mechanics and
realism,, S. Saunders, J. Barrett, A. Kent, and D. Wallace (eds), Oxford: Oxford University Press
(forthcoming).
2008b (with K. McKenzie) „The Structure of Scientific Theories‟, The Oxford Handbook of the
Philosophy of Science, L. Sklar, ed. forthcoming
2008c „Identity‟, Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy.
Friedel Weinert, Klaus Hentschel, Dan Greenberger, eds.. Springer-Verlag.
2008d „Fermi-Dirac Statistics‟, Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History
and Philosophy. Friedel Weinert, Klaus Hentschel, Dan Greenberger, eds.. Springer-Verlag.
2007 „The Philosophy of Physics‟, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Science, S, Psillos
and M. Curd, eds., Routledge.
2003 „Critical Notice: Cao‟s “Conceptual Developments of 20th Century Field Theories”‟, Synthese,
136, 79-105.
2001b „Review of The Quantum Mechanics of Mind and World by J. Barrett‟, Mind, 110, 1039-43.
2000a „Clock-Watcher', review of J. Barbour, The End of Time, New York Times Book Review,
March 26, 2000.
INVITED SEMINARS AND CONFERFENCES
In the past twenty years I have given more than a hundred invited talks at seminars and conferences
inside and outside the U.K. Recent talks include:
„Probability in the multiverse‟, workshop on the philosophy of cosmology, Oxford, Sept 2009.
„Two kinds of structuralism‟, conference in Philosophy of Physics, Wuhan University, July 2009.
„The nature of probability‟, plenary session, annual conference, British Society for the Philosophy of
Science, University of East Anglia, July 2009.
„Probability in the Everett interpretation‟, workshop on quantum probability, Jerusalem, Dec 2008.
„The Everett Interpretation‟, conference, Perimeter Institute, September 2007.
„Branching and uncertainty‟, conference, Oxford University, July 2007.
‘Probability in the Everett interpretation‟, workshop, Rutgers University, January 2007.
„The explanation of quantum statistics‟, conference, New Directions in Physics, University of
Maryland, April 2006
„Indistinguishability‟, seminar, Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada, April
2005.
„Mirror symmetry‟, seminar, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada, August 2005.
„Mirror symmetry‟, Green College Lecture, University of British Columbia, April 2005
„The Identity of Indiscernbles‟, conference, Structuralism (3), Paris, March 2005.
„The explanation of quantum statistics‟, seminar, University of Utrecht, March 2005.