Pages: 104
Publisher: Robert E. French
Year: 2016
ISBN: 978-0-692-75314-9
A Model of the Physical World: A Speculative Essay in Natural Philosophy
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(Light, Entanglement, Emission Theory)Robert E French was born in Wisconsin in 1952 and grew up in the state of Maine. He received an AB in philosophy from Dartmouth College in 1974 and a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1982 from Boston University where his thesis advisors were Abner Shimony and Judson Webb. He has taught philosophy at a number of schools in the Detroit area including Wayne State University, the University of Windsor, Central Michigan University and various community colleges. He has also been a research associate working on parametric down conversion in the laboratory of Ted Goodson at the University of Michigan. He has a wide range of interests but is currently working primarily on developing a physically realist interpretation of quantum mechanics, in particular as it relates to optics. He is married to Robin Siegel.
