Jeff Barrett Professor & Chair, Logic & Philosophy of Science Editor-in-Chief, Philosophy of Science

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I am interested in the philosophy of physics, the philosophy of science and mathematics, and the nature of empirical knowledge. More specifically, I am interested in such things as (i) attempts to resolve the quantum measurement problem (especially those attempts in the tradition of Everett's relative-state or many-worlds and Bohm's hidden-variable theories) and what quantum mechanics might tell us about the epistemic status of our best physical theories, (ii) pragmatic (i.e. belief-revision) models of knowledge, (iii) evolutionary game theory (in particular, how descriptive language and predictive theories might coevolve, e.g. in the context of Skyrms-Lewis sender-receiver games), (iv) algorithmic logic and the theory of computation more generally, and, recently, (v) the physical implementation of transfinite ordinal computation. I understand such interests as closely interrelated.

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