JOHN T. ROBERTS Associate Professor

John Roberts specializes in philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, and metaphysics.  His current research interests include laws of nature, scientific realism, and theoretical terms. Sample publications: "Lewis Carroll, and Seeing Through the Looking Glass," Australasian Journal of Philosophy (1998); "Undermining Undermined: Why Humean Supervenience Never Needed to be Debugged (Even If It's a Necessary Truth)," Philosophy of Science (2001); "Ceteris Paribus Lost," (with John Earman and Sheldon Russell Smith), Erkenntnis (2002); "Leibniz on Force and Absolute Motion," Philosophy of Science (2003); "Measurability and Physical Laws." Synthese (forthcoming). [Complete CV]