I am a Ph.D. candidate in the philosophy department at Rutgers University. While pursuing my doctorate in philosophy, I earned an M.S. from the Rutgers mathematics department.

My research interests include metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, philosophy of biology, epistemology (traditional and formal), and feminist philosophy.

Contact: isaac.wilhelm@rutgers.edu

Current Teaching

Introduction to Formal Reasoning and Decision-Making.

Publications

• Interventionist Explanation and the Problem of Single Variable Boundary Constraints (forthcoming). Noûs.
• Typical: A Theory of Typicality and Typicality Explanation (forthcoming). The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (archive version).
• The Logic of Typicality (forthcoming). In Valia Allori (ed.), Statistical Mechanics and Scientific Explanation: Determinism, Indeterminism and Laws of Nature, World Scientific (with Harry Crane).
• Celestial Chaos: The New Logics of Theory-Testing in Orbital Dynamics (2019). Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 65, 97-102.
• A Statistical Analysis of Luck (2018). Synthese, doi: 10.1007/s11229-018-1745-4.
• The Representation of Belief (2018). Journal of Philosophical Logic, 47, 715-732.
• New Data on the Representation of Women in Philosophy Journals: 2004-2015 (2018). Philosophical Studies, 175, 1441-1464 (with Sherri Conklin and Nicole Hassoun).