Smeenk, Chris -

Personal Information
First Name: 
Chris
Nom: 
Smeenk
Affiliation universitaire: 
University of Western Ontario
Phone: 
5196612111
Extension: 
85770
Email Address: 
Area of Research
Objet: 
Physics
Science
Champ d'études: 
History and philosophy of physics, general issues in philosophy of science, and seventeenth century natural philosophy.
Academics
PHD Program: 
History and Philosophy of Science
PHD University: 
University of Pittsburgh
PHD Date: 
2003
Major Publications: 
"Philosophy of Cosmology." To appear in The Oxford Handbook for the Philosophy of Physics, edited by B. Batterman. [pre-print] "Time in Cosmology." To appear in The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Time, ed. by A. Bardon and H. Dyke. [pre-print] "Newton's Principia," with Eric Schliesser. To appear in The Oxford Handbook for the History of Physics, edited by J. Buchwald and R. Fox (forthcoming). [pre-print] "Inflation as a Theory of Structure Formation," in Beyond Einstein, ed. by D. Rowe. Einstein Studies Vol. 13. Boston: Birhauser (forthcoming in 2012). [pre-print] "Einstein's Role in the Creation of Relativistic Cosmology." To appear in The Cambridge Companion to Einstein, edited by M. Janssen and C. Lehner. [pre-print] "Cotes' Queries: Newton's Empricism and Conceptions of Matter," with Zvi Biener. In Interpreting Newton, edited by E. Schliesser and A. Janiak. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 105-137. [pre-print] "Time Travel and Time Machines," with Christian Wüthrich. In The Oxford Handbook on Time, edited by C. Callender. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2011), pp. 577-630. [pre-print]
Courses Taught: 
Introduction to Theory of Knowledge, Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics, Foundations of Relativity Theory (graduate) Explanation and Evidence (graduate)