Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He received his B. A. in Physics and Philosophy from Yale and his Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I have never bumped into Tim Maudlin, but I ...

Physicists and philosophers seem to like nothing more than telling us that everything we thought about the world is wrong. They take a peculiar pleasure in exposing common sense as nonsense. But Tim ...

Canonical works in the philosophy of physics tend to begin with the Greeks. This practice stems from the philosopher’s need to flag the intellectual tradition from which current physics and its ...

Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at NYU and founder and director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. Allured by the promise of Big Data, science has shortchanged causal ...