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Alisa
Bokulich
Associate Professor of
Philosophy
Office: STH 511A
E-mail: abokulic@bu.edu
Education: Ph.D., University
of Notre Dame
Interests:
Philosophy of Science;
Philosophy of Physics; Science, Technology and
Values; History of Science |
Alisa Bokulich received her Ph.D. from
the University of Notre Dame's Program in History and Philosophy of
Science in 2001.
She has been the recipient a
National Science Foundation Scholar’s Award, and more recently
a National Science Foundation Conference Grant, which brought
together a dozen of the world’s leading physicists and
philosophers of physics working on the foundations of quantum
information and entanglement for a two-day conference.
Professor Bokulich's teaching at Boston
University includes courses in the philosophy of science, philosophy
of physics, and science, technology, and values. She is also a core
faculty member of the interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Science,
Philosophy, and Religion.
Publications
Books:
Reexamining the
Quantum-Classical Relation: Beyond Reductionism and Pluralism
(Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Scientific Structuralism
(Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science), co-edited with Peter
Bokulich (Springer, in progress).
Philosophy of Quantum
Information and Entanglement, co-edited with Gregg Jaeger
(Cambridge University Press, in progress).
Refereed Journal
Articles:
"Can Classical Structures
Explain Quantum Phenomena?" British Journal for the
Philosophy of Science: 59(2): 217-235
"Paul Dirac and the
Einstein-Bohr Debate," Perspectives on Science 16(1):
103-114 (2008).
“Heisenberg Meets Kuhn: Closed
Theories and Paradigms,” Philosophy of Science 73:
90-107 (2006).
"Niels Bohr's Generalization of
Classical Mechanics," (co-authored by Peter Bokulich)
Foundations of Physics 35(3): 347-371 (2005).
"Open or Closed? Dirac,
Heisenberg, and the Relation between Classical and Quantum
Mechanics," Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern
Physics 35 (3): 377-396 (2004).
"Horizontal Models: From Bakers
to Cats," Philosophy of Science 70: 609-627 (2003).
"Quantum Measurements and
Supertasks," International Studies in the Philosophy of
Science 17: 127-136 (2003).
"Rethinking Thought
Experiments," Perspectives on Science 9: 285-307
(2001).
Book Chapters, Encyclopedia
Entries, etc.:
"Bohr's Correspondence
Principle," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (in
progress).
"Explanatory Fictions, "
in M. Suarez (Ed.) Fictions in Science:
Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealization (Routledge,
forthcoming).
"Philosophy of Science,"
Encyclopedia of Science and Religion (Macmillan, 2003).
"History of Philosophy of
Science," Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
(Macmillan, 2003).
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