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Dr Robert Northcott

Email: r.northcott@bbk.ac.uk

My research is in philosophy of science and metaphysics, focusing in particular on causation and its use in science. For more details, consult my personal webpage.

Biographical details

    I started at Birkbeck in May 2011. Before that, I was as an assistant professor at University of Missouri-St Louis from autumn 2005, and was awarded tenure there in February 2011. I received my PhD in 2004 from the London School of Economics. I was also a visiting scholar for two years at University of California, San Diego. Before switching to philosophy I did graduate work in economics, receiving an MSc. Before even that, I began my student days as an undergraduate at Cambridge University studying mathematics and then history.

Areas of research supervision

  • Philosophy of science; metaphysics; philosophy of biology.

Publications

Forthcoming events

  • Tuesday 8 May 2012, 10am-1pm - 'Aristotelian Powers Now', at The London School of Economics and Political Science in CPNSS, T206.  Seminar will be chaired by Robert Northcott.  View PDF icon
  • May 2012 (invited talk) - ‘Explanatory power and difference-making’, workshop on explanatory power, Ruhr Universität Bochum,
  • April 2012 - ‘Sui generis explanations: theory and scientific progress’, The Progress of Science conference, Tilburg, April 2012
  • ‘Natural selection and causal exclusion’, Philosophy of Biology in the UK, Oxford,
  • February 2012 - ‘Scientific progress and sui generis cases’, Cambridge History and Philosophy of Science department seminar
  • January 2012 (invited talk) - ‘Scientific progress and sui generis explanations’, British Society for the Philosophy of Science meeting, London School of Economics,
  • January 2012 - ‘Pre-emption and causation’, Cambridge Serious Metaphysics group,
Robert Northcott

Robert Northcott

 
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