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Craig Callender

Disciplines:
philosophy of time
philosophy of science/philosophy of physics

Summary

American philosopher who has worked on the arrow of time, thermodynamics, and the metaphysics of time — arguing that the asymmetries we associate with time's direction are not metaphysically fundamental.

Core Contribution

What Makes Time Special?: systematic analysis of why time seems asymmetric — argues that most asymmetries are anthropocentric and that the fundamental physics is nearly time-symmetric. Edited influential anthologies on philosophy of time.

Notable Works & Achievements

What Makes Time Special?

Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale

Historical Influences

John Earman Huw Price

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Philosophy of Physics

Contemporaries & Peers

Huw Price Tim Maudlin

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Arrow of Time

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