Abner Shimony
Abner Eliezer Shimony | |
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| Born | March 10, 1928 |
| Doctoral advisor | Rudolf Carnap Eugene Wigner |
| Doctoral students | Michael Horne |
Abner Eliezer Shimony (
Education
Shimony was born in Columbus, Ohio. He obtained his BA in Mathematics and Philosophy from Yale University in 1948, and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1950. He obtained his Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1953 under the supervision of Rudolf Carnap, and served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps from 1953 to 1955. Shimony acquired his second doctorate in physics from Princeton University in 1962 under the supervision of Eugene Wigner with a thesis titled Regression and Response in Thermodynamic Systems.
Career
After receiving his second Ph.D., Shimony interacted with both the philosophical academic world and the physics academic world. His most famous professional correspondence is with
He is also known for his inquiry into the question of the "peaceful coexistence" of quantum mechanics and special relativity. He wrote several books and numerous research articles on the foundations of quantum mechanics and related topics. Shimony is credited with coining the phrase "passion at a distance" to characterize the various phenomena described by quantum correlations in 1984.[4]
In 1996 he was awarded the Lakatos Award in the philosophy of science for the two-volume collection of papers, The Search for a Naturalistic World View, spanning his career up until 1992. He served as president of the Philosophy of Science Association from 1995 to 1996. He died in New Haven, Connecticut, aged 87.
Shimony was married to the noted anthropologist Annemarie Anrod Shimony., from 1951 until her death in 1995.[5]
Selected publications
- Primary
- 1987. Edited by Abner Shimony & Debra Nails; Naturalistic Epistemology: A Symposium of Two Decades (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Volume 100) ISBN 90-277-2337-0
- 1993. Selected Papers, Search for a Naturalistic World View, Volume 1, Scientific Method and Epistemology ISBN 0-521-37352-2
- 1993. Selected Papers, Search for a Naturalistic World View, Volume 2, Natural Science and Metaphysics ISBN 0-521-37353-0
- 1998, Tibaldo and the Hole in the Calendar ISBN 0-387-94935-6
- 1987. Edited by Abner Shimony & Debra Nails; Naturalistic Epistemology: A Symposium of Two Decades (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Volume 100)
- Secondary
- 1977. Edited by Abner Shimony; Rudolf Carnap; Two Essays on Entropy ISBN 0-520-02715-9
- 1997. Edited by Robert S. Cohen, Michael Horne & John Stachel; Experimental Metaphysics: Quantum Mechanical Studies for Abner Shimony, Volume 1 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Volume 193) ISBN 978-0-7923-4452-0
- 1997. Edited by Robert S. Cohen, Michael Horne & John Stachel; Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance: Quantum Mechanical Studies for Abner Shimony, Volume 2 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Volume 194) ISBN 0-7923-4453-7
- 1997. Edited by Malcolm Longair; Roger Penrose with Abner Shimony, Nancy Cartwright and Stephen Hawking; The Large, the Small and the Human Mind ISBN 0-521-56330-5
- 2006. Edited by Abner Shimony; Martin Eger; Science, Understanding, and Justice: Philosophical Essays ISBN 0-8126-9461-9
- 2009. Edited by Wayne C. Myrvold & Joy Christian; Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle: Essays in Honour of Abner Shimony ISBN 978-1-4020-9106-3
- 1977. Edited by Abner Shimony; Rudolf Carnap; Two Essays on Entropy
See also
- Englert–Greenberger duality relation
- Epistemological Letters
References
- ^ Shimony, Abner. "Correspondence between Shimony and Carnap" (PDF). Abner Shimony's Papers. Special Collections Department, University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved September 19, 2013.
- ^ "Boston Globe obituary". Legacy.com. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
- ISBN 978-1-4020-9107-0, retrieved February 28, 2022
- Boston Globe. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
External links
- Shimony's article on Bell's theorem in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Partial bibliography of philosophical papers.
- Boston University Faculty page for Abner Shimony.
- Photo of Abner Shimony during his career at BU.
- Transcript of Oral History interview with Abner Shimony, September 9, 2002, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives.
- A recent conference held at the Perimeter Institute in honor of Abner Shimony Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle: An International Conference in Honour of Abner Shimony | Perimeter Institute
- Shimony conference talks at the Perimeter Institute Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle – 2006 | PIRSA
- Shimony Papers Guide to the Abner Shimony Papers, 1947–2009 ASP.2009.02 | Digital Pitt (Abner Shimony Papers, 1947–2009, ASP.2009.02, Archives of Scientific Philosophy, Special Collections Department, University of Pittsburgh)
- An Abner Shimony retrospective (from Mind and Matter) In Appreciation of Abner Shimony
- Former PhD Students
- Ronald Anderson (Boston College)
- Joy Christian (University of Oxford)
- John H. Heffner (Lebanon Valley College)
- Michael Horne Archived August 5, 2015, at the Wayback Machine (Stonehill College)
- Don Howard (University of Notre Dame)
- Gregg Jaeger (Boston University)
- Andre Mirabelli
- Wayne Myrvold (University of W. Ontario)
- Paul Teller (UC Davis)
- Shimony's last presentation, "Reminiscences", at the Boston Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, at their 50th anniversary celebration, October 22, 2010
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