Bryan W. Roberts - Usc - University of Southern California

Bryan W. Roberts
Employment
USC School of Philosophy, 3709 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0451
. bryan.roberts@usc.edu | . www.usc.edu/bryanroberts
Curriculum Vitae: April 21, 2013
2013 Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
London School of Economics & Political Science
2012 to 2013. Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Philosophy
University of Southern California
Specialization
AOS
AOC
foundations of physics
philosophy of science, logic, philosophy of mathematics, bioethics
Education
Ph.D. History & Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, 2012
Dissertation. “Time, symmetry and structure: A study in the foundations of quantum
theory.” John Earman (co-supervisor), John D. Norton (co-supervisor), Robert Batterman,
Laura Ruetsche, Giovanni Valente.
B.A. Philosophy, University of Washington, Dec. 2005
With College Honors
B.S. Mathematics, University of Washington, Dec. 2005
Articles
Forth. Roberts, Bryan W. “The simple failure of Curie’s Principle.” To appear in Philosophy of
Science.
Forth. Roberts, Bryan W. “When we do (and do not) have a classical arrow of time.” To
appear in Philosophy of Science (2012 PSA Proceedings).
2012 Roberts, Bryan W. “Kramers degeneracy without eigenvectors.” Physical Review A
86(3):034103. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.86.034103
2012 Norton, John D. and Bryan W. Roberts. “The Scaling of Speeds and Distances in
Galileo’s Two New Sciences: A reply to Palmerino and Laird.” Centaurus 54(2):182-191.
doi:10.1111/j.1600-0498.2012.00263.x
2012 Norton, John D. and Bryan W. Roberts. “Galileo’s refutation of the speed-distance law
of fall rehabilitated.” Centaurus 54(2):148-164. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0498.2012.00260.x
2011 Roberts, Bryan W. “How Galileo Dropped the Ball and Fermat Picked It Up.” Synthese
180(3):337-356. doi:10.1007/s11229-009-9705-7.
2011 Roberts, Bryan W. “Group Structural Realism.” The British Journal for the Philosophy of
Science 62(1):47-69. doi:10.1093/bjps/axq009.
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Manuscripts in progress
philsci-
Roberts, Bryan W. “The simple failure of Curie’s Principle,” Preprint:
archive.pitt.edu/9249/.
Roberts, Bryan W. “A few stops on the road to T-violation,” Preprint:
usc.edu/bryanroberts
Roberts, Bryan W. “Three myths about time reversal in quantum mechanics,” Preprint:
usc.edu/bryanroberts
Roberts, Bryan W. “Does quantum time have a preferred direction?” Preprint: philsciarchive.pitt.edu/8811/.
Awards, Honors & Appointments
2012 Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Philosophy, University of Southern California.
2011 (Winter) Visiting Scholar, Logic & Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine.
2011 Dissertation Research Improvement Award #1058902, National Science Foundation.
2010 Rob Clifton Memorial Book Prize in Philosophy of Physics, University of W. Ontario.
2008 Wesley Salmon Fund Grant, University of Pittsburgh.
2007 Arts & Science Teaching Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh.
2006 Andrew Mellon Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh.
2005 Distinguished Service Award in Philosophy, University of Washington.
Invited Talks
2013 “Three Merry Roads to T -violation,” Workshop on Cosmology and Time, Penn State
University, April 16-17.
2012 “The simple failure of Curie’s principle,” Southern California Philosophy of Physics
Reading Group, University of California, Irvine, December 8.
2012 “When do the laws of physics distinguish past from future?” University of Southern
California, Aug 31.
2012 “Does quantum time have a preferred direction?” University of Sydney (Dec 6, 2011),
University of California, Irvine (Jan 13, 2012), University of Chicago (Jan 19, 2012),
California State University, LA (Jan 23, 2012).
2011 “T -invariance and T -violation.” University of Bristol Quantum Field Theory Workshop,
May 24.
2011 “Three myths about time reversal.” University of Oxford Philosophy of Physics Research
Seminar, May 19.
2011 “Notes on the CPT Theorem.” UCSD Philosophy of Science Reading Group, University
of California, San Diego, March 3.
2011 “How to time reverse a quantum system.” Southern California Philosophy of Physics
Reading Group, University of California, Irvine, February 19.
2010 “Group Theory and the Structure of Quantum Theory.” University of Notre Dame
Workshop: Structuralism in Philosophy of Science, November 18-20.
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Conference Presentations
“When we do (and do not) have a classical arrow of time”
Nov 2012 Philosophy of Science Association 23nd Biennial Meeting, San Diego, CA.
“How to time reverse a quantum system”
Nov 2010 Philosophy of Science Association 22nd Biennial Meeting, Montréal, QC.
Jul 2010 British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Meeting, University College
Dublin, Ireland.
Feb 2010 North Carolina Philosophical Society annual meeting in Charlotte, NC.
“Galileo’s Refutation of the Speed-Distance Law of Fall Rehabilitated”
Sep 2010 &HPS 3 , University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN.
“Group Structural Realism”
Apr 2009 Logic, Mathematics, and Physics Graduate Philosophy Conference, University of Western
Ontario, London, ON.
Teaching Experience
Spr 2013
Fall 2012
Spr 2010
Fall 2009
Spr 2008
Fall 2007
“Methodologies of the Sciences” (PHIL 486), University of Southern California
“Einstein’s Spacetime Revolution” (ARLT 100), University of Southern California
“Morality & Medicine,” University of Pittsburgh
“Principles of Scientific Reasoning,” University of Pittsburgh
TA, “Einstein for Everyone,” University of Pittsburgh, Assistant for John D. Norton
TA, “Introduction to the Philosophy of Science,” University of Pittsburgh, Assistant
for John Earman
Service to the Profession
Conferences Organized
Jun 2012
7th Quadrennial Fellows Conference of the Center for Philosophy of Science (University
of Pittsburgh / Muğla, Turkey) Co-Organized with Mehmet Elgin, Peter
Machamer, Ali Osman Gündoğan, John D. Norton.
Referee Service
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Dialectica, Erkenntnis, Foundations of Physics,
Humana.mente Journal of Philosophical Studies, Journal of General Philosophy of Science,
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy of Science, Synthese, Theoria.
PhilSci-Archive Online Repository
Archive Manager (Aug 2009 - Aug 2012), Executive Committee Member (Aug 2012 - Present).
PhilSci-Archive is the official online repository of the Philosophy of Science Association. For
more information, visit http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu.
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Public Lectures
“Metaphysics vs. Physics” Public panel discussion, University of Southern California, November
30, 2012.
Other service
USC Logic Web Developer, University of Southern California, 2013.
Minute Secretary, Philosophy of Science Association Governing Board: 2011, 2012.
Organizer, USC Philosophy of Science Group, 2012
Languages
fluent
reading
English, French, Spanish.
German, Latin.
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