Craig Callender (born 1968) is a

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professor ...

of philosophy at the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...

. His main areas of research are

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 ulti ...

philosophy of physics In philosophy, philosophy of physics deals with conceptual and interpretational issues in modern physics, many of which overlap with research done by certain kinds of theoretical physicists. Philosophy of physics can be broadly divided into t ...

and

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 ...

Education and career

Callender obtained his

PhD PHD or PhD may refer to: * Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification Entertainment * '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series * ''Piled Higher and Deeper ''Piled Higher and Deeper'' (also known as ''PhD Comics''), is a newsp ...

in 1997 from

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and wa ...

with a thesis entitled ''Time's Arrow'' under the supervision of Robert Weingard. From 1996-2000, he worked in the Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method at the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 mill ...

. Currently, he is a professor of philosophy at the

where he is also the co-director of the Institute for Practical Ethics at the

. Callender serves on the ''Committee for Freedom and Responsibility of Science'' of the

International Science Council The International Science Council (ISC) is an international non-governmental organization that unites scientific bodies at various levels across the social and natural sciences. The ISC was formed with its inaugural general assembly on 4 July 201 ...

. Callender has written articles for

Scientific American ''Scientific American'', informally abbreviated ''SciAm'' or sometimes ''SA'', is an American popular science magazine. Many famous scientists, including Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla, have contributed articles to it. In print since 1845, it i ...

on the

philosophy of time Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. S ...

and participated in the

World Science Festival The World Science Festival is an annual science festival produced by the World Science Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in New York City. There is also an Asia-Pacific event held in Brisbane, Australia. The fou ...

2013 with

Tim Maudlin Tim William Eric Maudlin (born April 23, 1958) is an American philosopher of science who has done influential work on the metaphysical foundations of physics and logic. Education and career Maudlin graduated from Sidwell Friends School, Wash ...

and

Max Tegmark Max Erik Tegmark (born 5 May 1967) is a Swedish-American physicist, cosmologist and machine learning researcher. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the president of the Future of Life Institute. He is also a scie ...

on the same topic.

Selected publications

In reverse chronological order, unless otherwise specified.

Books

*Callender, Craig (2017). ''What Makes Time Special?'' Oxford University Press, Oxford, ISBN 978-0-19-879730-2 * *Craig Callender (ed.): ''Time, Reality and Experience'', Cambridge University Press, August 2002, *Craig Callender, Nick Huggett (eds.): ''Physics meets philosophy at the Planck scale: contemporary theories in quantum gravity'', Cambridge University Press, 2001, / *Craig Callender, Ralph Edney: ''Introducing time'', Totem Books, 1997,

Articles

* *Craig Callender, Robert Weingard: ''Topology change and the unity of space'', Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 227–246, 2000
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*Craig Callender, Robert Weingard: ''Nonlocality in the expanding infinite well'', Foundations of Physics Letters, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 495–498, 1998
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*Robert Weingard, Craig Callender: ''Trouble in paradise: Problems for Bohm's theory'', The Monist, Quantum Mechanics and the Real World, vol. 80, no. 1 January 1997
abstract (in French language)
*Craig Callender, Robert Weingard: ''Time, Bohm's theory, and

quantum cosmology Quantum cosmology is the attempt in theoretical physics to develop a quantum theory of the universe. This approach attempts to answer open questions of classical physical cosmology, particularly those related to the first phases of the universe. ...

'', Philosophy of Science, vol. 63, September 1996, pp. 470–474
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*Craig Callender, Robert Weingard: ''Bohmian cosmology and the quantum smearing of the initial singularity'' (communicated by Peter R. Holland),

Physics Letters A ''Physics Letters'' was a scientific journal published from 1962 to 1966, when it split in two series now published by Elsevier Elsevier () is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its ...

, Volume 208, Issues 1-2, 20 November 1995, pp. 59–61
abstract
*Craig Callender, Robert Weingard: ''The Bohmian model of quantum cosmology'', Philosophy of Science Association, PSA 1994, Vol. 1, pp. 218–227
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References

External links

C. Callendar (USCD)C. Callendar, publications list (USCD)
* ttp://www.philostv.com/craig-callender-and-sean-carroll/ Discussion on Philosophy TVwith Sean Carroll {{DEFAULTSORT:Callender, Craig Philosophers of physics University of California, San Diego faculty Living people 1968 births Philosophy of time Metaphysicians 21st-century American philosophers Rutgers University alumni Lakatos Award winners