PHILOSOPHY: faculty
The City University of New York Graduate Center
Alberto Cordero
- M.Phil. Cambridge
- M.Sc. Oxford
- Ph.D. University of Maryland
Email:
corde@prodigy.net
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Research Interests
- Philosophy of Science
- Philosophy of Physics
- Philosophical history of science
Courses Recently Taught
- Science's Realism and its Critics (Spring 2007)
- Philosophy of Science (core) (Spring 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003)
- Philosophy and Biology (Fall 2003)
- Science and Philosophy (Fall 2002)
- Philosophical Cosmology (Spring 2002)
Representative Publications
- "Contemporary Nativism, Scientific Texture, and the Moral Limits of Free Inquiry". Philosophy of Science 72 (2005): 1220-1231.
- "Are GRW Tails as Bad as They Say?", in Philosophy of Science S66 (1999).
- "Physics and the Underdetermination Thesis: Some Lessons from Quantum Theory". Invited Paper: in Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, S. Dawson (Managing Editor). Boston: Federation Internationale de Societes de Philosophie & Boston University, 2000.
- "Scientific Culture and Public Education", in Science & Education, December, 2000.
- "Realism and Underdetermination: Some Clues From the Practices-Up". Philosophy of Science, S68 (2001).
- Collection: Philosophy and the Origin and Evolution of the Universe. Includes critical introduction by editors. With E. Agazzi. Dordrecht: Synthese Library, Kluwer, 1991.