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Name
  
Brian Ellis


Residence
  
Australia

Alma mater
  
Adelaide UniversityUniversity of OxfordLa Trobe University

Notable awards
  
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)

Education
  
University of Adelaide, La Trobe University, University of Oxford

Fields
  
Philosophy, History and philosophy of science

Brian Ellis (born 1929) is an Emeritus Professor in the philosophy department at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia. He is one of the major proponents of the New Essentialist school of philosophy of science (philosophy of nature).

Contents

In The Philosophy of Nature: A Guide to the New Essentialism, he groups a number of philosophers into his camp:

However, this list of claimed allies has been disputed by Stephen Mumford, at least with regard to "Shoemaker, Martin, Molnar, Heil and Cartwright."

Selected publications

  • The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism (Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010). ISBN 978-0-7735-3696-8
  • The Philosophy of Nature: A Guide to the New Essentialism 2002. ISBN 0-7735-2474-6
  • Scientific Essentialism 2001. ISBN 978-0-521-80094-5
  • Truth and Objectivity (Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1991). ISBN 0-631-15397-7
  • "What Science Aims to Do," in Images of Science: Essays on Realism and Empiricism, with a Reply from Bas C. van Fraassen, ed. P. Churchland and C. Hooker, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985), 48–74.
  • Rational belief systems (Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield, 1979).
  • Basic concepts of measurement (Cambridge University Press, 1966).
  • "The Origin and Nature of Newton's Laws of Motion" in Beyond the Edge of Certainty. ed. R. G. Colodny. (Pittsburgh: University Pittsburgh Press, 1965).
  • "Has the universe a beginning in time?", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 33:1 (1955), 32–37.

    • Mentioned In

  • Marc Lange, Laws and Lawmakers: Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature (Oxford University Press, 2009).
  • Alexander Bird, Nature's Metaphysics: Laws and Properties (Oxford University Press, 2010).

    • References

    Brian David Ellis Wikipedia
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