Isaac Wilhelm
isaac.wilhelm@rutgers.edu
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 focuses on issues in metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of physics. My dissertation is on explanation: I explore the worldly relations which back explanations, typicality explanations, and explanatory comparisons in mathematics.
In addition to philosophy, I like watching and making movies, reading and writing poems, and hiking.
Publications
- The Counteridentical Account of Explanatory Identities (forthcoming). The Journal of Philosophy.
- Comparing Mathematical Explanations (forthcoming). The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
- Grounding and Propositional Identity (forthcoming). Analysis.
- Explanatory Priority Monism (forthcoming). Philosophical Studies.
- Interventionist Explanation and the Problem of Single Variable Boundary Constraints (forthcoming). Noûs.
- The Stage Theory of Groups (forthcoming). Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
- 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).
- Featured in the OUP "Best of Philosophy 2019" article collection.
- 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)
- A Statistical Analysis of Luck (2020). Synthese 197: 867-885.
- Celestial Chaos: The New Logics of Theory-Testing in Orbital Dynamics (2019). Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 65: 97-102.
- The Ontology of Mechanisms (2019). The Journal of Philosophy 116: 615-636.
- New Data on the Representation of Women in Philosophy Journals: 2004-2015 (2018). Philosophical Studies 175: 1441-1464. (with Sherri Conklin and Nicole Hassoun)
- The Representation of Belief (2018). Journal of Philosophical Logic 47: 715-732.