B.Sc. (N.S.W.), M.A. (Macquarie), Ph.D. (Sydney)
Reader
Office: Forgan Smith E354
Phone: (+61 7) 3365 6543
Email: p.dowe@uq.edu.au
Teaching
Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Introduction to Philosophy.
Research interests
Philosophy of Science, Early Modern Philosophy, Science and Religion, Metaphysics.
Current research projects
Time, Causation, Identity, Chance.
Selected recent publications
Forthcoming “Common sense, relativity and theories of time”, in R. Vanderbeeken, and B. D’Hooghe, B. (eds), Worldviews, science and us: studies of analytical metaphysics: a selection of topics from a methodological perspective (Kluwer).
Forthcoming, “Singular causation”, TheMonist.
Forthcoming, “Causal process theories” in Hitchcock, Beebee and Menzies (eds), Oxford Handbook of Causation (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Forthcoming, (with S. Barker) “How to endure” Metaphysica, special issue on persistence.
2005 Galileo, Darwin, and Hawking: the interaction of science and religion (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press/Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans)
2005 (with S. Barker) “Endurance is paradoxical”, Analysis 65, pp. 69-74.
2005 “Backwards causation” in José Diez Calzada and Carl Hoefer (eds), Causalidad y explication: En homage a Wesley Salmon (Barcelona: Autonomous University Press (in Spanish)
2004 “Prevention et omission”, in Jean-Maurice Monnoyer (ed.), La structure du monde : objets, propriétés, etats de choses (Paris: Vrin).
2004 “Why preventers and omissions are not causes” in C. Hitchcock (ed.), Contemporary debates in philosophy of science (Cambridge: Blackwell).
2004 “Causality and misconnection”, Philosophy of Science 71, pp. 926–931.
2004 “Chance lowering causes”, in P. Dowe P. P. and Nordhoff (eds), Chance and cause: causation in an indeterministic world (London: Routledge).
2003 “A dilemma For objective chance”, in M. Thalos and H. Kyburg (eds), Probability as a guide to life (Chicago: Open Court).
2003 (co-editor with P. Noordhof), Cause and chance: causation in an indeterministic world (London: Routledge)
2003 (with S. Barker) “Paradoxes of multi-location”, Analysis 63, pp. 106-13.
2003 “The coincidences of time travel”, Philosophy of Science 70 pp. 574-89.
2002 “What is determinism?” in H. Atmanspacher and R. Bishop (eds.), Between chance and choice: interdisciplinary perspectives on determinism (Thorverton: Imprint Academic)
2001 “A counterfactual theory of prevention and ‘causation’ by omission", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 79 (2), pp. 216-26.
2001 “The improbability of time travel" in U. Meixner (ed), Metaphysics in the post-metaphysical age, (Proceedings of the 22th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky)
2001 "Causal loops and the independence of causal facts”, Philosophy of Science 68, pp. S89-S97.