Tim Maudlin

Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at NYU and founder and director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics.

The Why of the World

Allured by the promise of Big Data, science has shortchanged causal explanation in favor of data-driven prediction. But ultimately we must ask why.

  • Tim Maudlin

The Defeat of Reason

Two new books—one on quantum physics, one on Thomas Kuhn—seek to reestablish the authority of reason and evidence.

  • Tim Maudlin
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