Chris Smeenk

Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario (Status-Only)

Campus

Fields of Study

Areas of Interest

Philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, history of physics

Biography

“Determinism and General Relativity,” with Christian Wüthrich. Accepted for publication in Philosophy of Science. Preprint arXiv:2009.07555.

“Validating the Universe in a Box,” with Sarah Gallagher. Philosophy of Science 87 (2020). Preprint arXiv:2001.09101.

“Some Reflections on the Structure of Cosmological Knowledge.” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 71 (2020): 220-231.

“Q.E.D., QED,” with Adam Koberinski. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 71 (2020): 1-13.

“Gaining Access to the Early Universe,” in Why Trust Theory? Epistemology of Fundamental Physics, edited by R. Dawid, K. Thebault, and R. Darshati. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2019), pp. 315-338.

“Philosophical Aspects of Cosmology,” in Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology, edited by H. Kragh and M.S. Longair. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2019), pp. 497-530.

“Inflation, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy,” with Malcolm Longair, in Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology, edited by H. Kragh and M.S. Longair. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2019), pp. 426-464.