Robert Weingard | |
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Born | 1942 New York City, New York, U.S. |
Died | 14 September, 1996 (aged 53–54) |
Nationality | American |
Institutions | Rutgers University |
Robert Weingard (1942 – 1996) was a philosopher of science and professor of philosophy[1] at Rutgers University.
He became faculty member at Rutgers University and later joined the Department of Philosophy of Rutger University's School of Arts and Sciences in 1988.[2] On 14 September 1996, Robert Weingard died of a heart attack;[2][3] some of his articles were published posthumously.
Weingard supervised the PhD thesis Explaining Time's Arrow (1997) of Craig Callender, now professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.[4] He also supervised the PhD thesis of Nick Huggett, now an LAS Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at University of Illinois, Chicago (1995).
Weingard worked on the philosophy of physics and the philosophy of space and time. His interest included in particular the foundations of quantum mechanics, the de Broglie–Bohm theory and quantum field theory and relations to quantum cosmology.