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, epistemology (traditional and formal), feminist philosophy, logic, philosophy of biology, and philosophy of mathematics.

Contact: isaac.wilhelm@rutgers.edu

Current Teaching

Introduction to Formal Reasoning and Decision-Making

Publications

• The Ontology of Mechanisms (forthcoming). The Journal of Philosophy.
• Interventionist Explanation and the Problem of Single Variable Boundary Constraints (forthcoming). Noûs.
• An Argument for Entity Grounding (forthcoming). Analysis.
• 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).