Bradley Harris Dowden (born 1942) is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the

California State University, Sacramento California State University, Sacramento (CSUS, Sacramento State, or informally Sac State) is a public university in Sacramento, California. Founded in 1947 as Sacramento State College, it is the eleventh oldest school in the 23-campus California ...

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He is a general editor of the '' Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy''. Dowden received his MS in

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

from

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and his PhD in philosophy from Stanford University. His main interests are

metaphysics Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of conscio ...

philosophy of science Philosophy of science is a branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. The central questions of this study concern what qualifies as science, the reliability of scientific theories, and the ult ...

philosophy of mind Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the ontology and nature of the mind and its relationship with the body. The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a number of other issues are add ...

logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premise ...

time Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, ...

paradox A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation. It is a statement that, despite apparently valid reasoning from true premises, leads to a seemingly self-contradictory or a logically u ...

and infinity.

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* ''Logical Reasoning'', Bradley H. Dowden, Belmont CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co. 1993 * ''The Metaphysics of Time: A Dialogue'' (New Dialogues in Philosophy), Bradley Dowden, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009

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Dowden's Personal WebpageBradley Dowden on YouTube
Living people California State University, Sacramento faculty Ohio State University alumni Philosophy academics Stanford University alumni American logicians 21st-century American philosophers Philosophers of science Philosophers of mind Analytic philosophers Critics of parapsychology Metaphysicians 1942 births Place of birth missing (living people) {{US-philosopher-stub

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