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 interests include metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, epistemology (traditional and formal), feminist philosophy, logic, philosophy of biology, and philosophy of mathematics. 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.
Contact: isaac.wilhelm@rutgers.edu
Publications
- Comparing Mathematical Explanations (forthcoming). The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
- Explanatory Priority Monism (forthcoming). Philosophical Studies.
- Grounding and Propositional Identity (forthcoming). Analysis.
- 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)
- 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.
- A Statistical Analysis of Luck (2018). Synthese doi: 10.1007/s11229-018-1745-4.
- 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.