Chris Smeenk

Chris Smeenk

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Chris
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Smeenk
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Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario (Status-Only)
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“Determinism and General Relativity,” with Christian Wüthrich. Accepted for publication in Philosophy of Science. Preprint arXiv:2009.07555.

“Validating the Universe in a Box,” with Sarah Gallagher. Philosophy of Science 87 (2020). Preprint arXiv:2001.09101.

“Some Reflections on the Structure of Cosmological Knowledge.” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 71 (2020): 220-231.

“Q.E.D., QED,” with Adam Koberinski. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 71 (2020): 1-13.

“Gaining Access to the Early Universe,” in Why Trust Theory? Epistemology of Fundamental Physics, edited by R. Dawid, K. Thebault, and R. Darshati. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2019), pp. 315-338.

“Philosophical Aspects of Cosmology,” in Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology, edited by H. Kragh and M.S. Longair. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2019), pp. 497-530.

“Inflation, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy,” with Malcolm Longair, in Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology, edited by H. Kragh and M.S. Longair. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2019), pp. 426-464.

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Philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, history of physics

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