Lawrence Sklar

Lawrence Sklar ( born June 25, 1938 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American philosopher who deals with philosophy of science, and especially philosophy of physics.

Sklar studied at Oberlin College with a bachelor 's degree in 1958 and at Princeton University, where in 1960 he received his master's degree and doctorate in 1964. 1959/60 he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. From 1962 he was instructor and later Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College. From 1966 to 1968 he was Assistant Professor at Princeton and he is at the University of Michigan, where he received a full professorship in 1974 since 1968. He is there Carl G. Hempel and William K. Frankena Distinguished University Professor.

In 1963 he was a visiting professor at the University of Illinois, 1968 at the University of Pennsylvania, 1970 at Harvard University, in 1973 at UCLA and 1977 at Wayne State University. In 1998 he was Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where he gave the John Locke Lectures. 2007/ 08 he was president of the Philosophy of Science Association and the 2000/2001 President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association.

1974/75 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 1977 to 1981, from 1984 he was in the editorial board of Philosophy of Science.

Writings

  • The Philosophy of Physics, Oxford University Press 1992
  • Physics and Chance. Philosophical issues in the foundations of statistical mechanics, Cambridge University Press, 1993 ( the book was awarded the 1995 Lakatos Award)
  • Space, Time and Spacetime, University of California Press, 1974 ( for the book he received the Franklin J. Matchette price of the American Philosophical Association)
  • Philosophy and Spacetime Physics, University of California Press 1985
  • Theory and Truth. Philosophical critique within foundational science, Oxford University Press 2000
  • Publisher Philosophy of Science. A collection of essays, two volumes, New York, Garland 2000
  • Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics, Cambridge University Press 2012
  • Types of inter - theoretic reduction, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Volume 18, 1967, pp. 109-124.
  • Philosophy of statistical mechanics, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2009
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