Robert Weingard
Born1942
Died14 September, 1996 (aged 53–54)
NationalityAmerican
InstitutionsRutgers University

Robert Weingard (1942 – 1996) was a philosopher of science and professor of philosophy[1] at Rutgers University.

Biography

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.

Publications

References

  1. ^ Craig Callender; Nick Huggett (29 January 2001). Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale: Contemporary Theories in Quantum Gravity. Cambridge University Press. p. 358. ISBN 978-0-521-66445-5.
  2. ^ a b Rutgers Department of Philosophy history
  3. ^ Craig Callender, Robert Weingard: Topology change and the unity of space, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 227–246, 2000, full text Archived 2011-11-07 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Rutgers graduate placements list Archived 2011-11-20 at the Wayback Machine, C. Callendar (USCD) Archived 2011-10-06 at the Wayback Machine and publications list Archived 2012-08-05 at archive.today