Douglas Kutach
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Brown University

Ph.D., Rutgers

Office: 300 Gerard House, 54 College St.
Office Phone: 863.3242
E-Mail: dk11 (assigned to the brown.edu domain)

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Research Interest:

Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language (pragmatics)

Current Work:

Statistical mechanics and its relation to causation, counterfactuals, and decisions; spacetime structure and the relations between relativistic and non-relativistic spacetime theories; the Charge-Parity-Time symmetry in quantum field theory, and the relation between indicative and subjunctive conditionals.

Recent Seminar Topics:

Physics and Causation.

Biography:

Ph.D. Rutgers; B.S., M.A. Philosophy, Texas A&M; B.S., Physics, Texas A&M. Has taught at University of Oklahoma, Texas Tech University, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Time in 2003-4.

Some Published Works:

"The Entropy Theory of Counterfactuals," Philosophy of Science, 69 (1), 2002.
"Time Travel and Consistency Constraints," Philosophy of Science, PSA Supplement to 70 (3), 2003.
"The Physical Foundations of Causation," in Causation and the Constitution of Reality, 2005.
"Counterfactuals in Science," in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, MacMillan, 2005.