Arthur Fine
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Born | Natural ontological attitude | November 11, 1937
Arthur Isadore Fine (born November 11, 1937) is an American philosopher of science now emeritus at the University of Washington.
Education and career
Having studied physics, philosophy, and mathematics, Fine graduated from the University of Chicago in 1958 with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics. He then, in 1960, earned a Master of Science in mathematics from the Illinois Institute of Technology with a thesis supervised by Karl Menger,[1]
Fine earned his Ph.D. from the
In 2014, Fine was elected a Fellow of the
Philosophical work
Fine famously proposed the
Fine also developed one of the possible
In 2001, Fine gave the following re-counting of the birth of NOA and its important relationship to
The Scientific Image arrived in 1980 like a breath of fresh air. Although in the introduction van Fraassen counts me among the realist foot soldiers, at just that time Micky Forbes and I were engaged in rethinking the whole realism/antirealism issue. The result was NOA. Van Fraassen's powerful and enlightening monograph encouraged us in that project. If Micky and I are parents of NOA, then Bas is perhaps a godfather. Paul Teller too, since he was among the people then who helped us refine our ideas as they developed.[5]
Selected publications
- Fine, Arthur (February 25, 2009). The Shaky Game: Einstein, Realism, and the Quantum Theory. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-92326-0. 1st edition, 1986; xi+186 pages
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: CS1 maint: postscript (link)[6] - Fine, Arthur; Leplin, Jarrett, eds. (December 1989). PSA 1988: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vol. 2: Symposia and Invited Papers, held on January 1, 1988. Philosophy of Science Association. ISBN 091758628X; hbk, 517 pages)
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: CS1 maint: postscript (link - Cushing, J. T.; Fine, Arthur; Goldstein, S., eds. (September 30, 1996). Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory: An Appraisal. Springer. ISBN 978-0-7923-4028-7.
See also
References
- ISBN 978-0-19-975466-3, archived from the originalon March 11, 2021, retrieved March 11, 2021
- ^ "Philosophical Genealogy". faculty.washington.edu. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
- ^ AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES NEWLY ELECTED MEMBERS, APRIL 2014
- ^ plato.stanford.edu
- ^ Fine, Arthur (2001) "The Scientific Image 20 Years Later" Philosophical Studies. p.207.
External links
- Arthur Fine's page in University of Washington website