I am a Ph.D. candidate in the philosophy department at Rutgers University. While pursuing my doctorate in philosophy, I earned an M.S. degree 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 the Philosophy of Science

Publications

• “Celestial Chaos: The New Logics of Theory-Testing in Orbital Dynamics” (forthcoming). Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics.
• “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” (2018). Synthese.
• “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).

Philosophy Talk

A podcast in which I talk to Rose Oliveira about various issues in philosophy.
Determinism
The Trolley Problem and the Hospital Problem