Andrew Wayne

Education

B.Sc., University of Toronto
M.A., University of California, San Diego
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Research

My research focuses on topics in philosophy of science and history and philosophy of modern physics, including: reduction and emergence in physics; scientific explanation; modeling and idealization in science.

Selected Publications

• "Explanatory Asymmetry in Non-Causal Explanation" (Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 2022)
• "Point-particle explanations: the case of gravitational waves" (Synthese, 2019)
• "Explanatory Integration" (European Journal of Philosophy of Science, 2018)
• "Causal Relations and Explanatory Strategies in Physics" (International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 29:75-89, 2015)
• "Expanding the Scope of Explanatory Idealization" (Philosophy of Science 78(5): 830-841, 2011)
• "Emergence and Singular Limits" (Synthese 184(3): 341-356, 2010)
• "Emergence in Physics ," co-authored with Michal Arciszewski, Philosophy Compass 4:846-858 (2009)

For a more complete list of publications, see my PhilPeople page.