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Philosophy of Physics/Foundations of Physics!!!
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:38 pm
by limbophysics
Anyone have advice on good schools for PhD programs?
Re: Philosophy of Physics/Foundations of Physics!!!
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:44 pm
by noojens
Urm, nothing comes to mind. It's unlikely you'll find many universities with philosophy of physics groups, so I'd start by reading journals and looking up authors that interest you.
G'luck!
Re: Philosophy of Physics/Foundations of Physics!!!
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 7:47 pm
by girl
Ok I came to physics by way of philo, so I looked into this quite a lot at one point in my life. No physics program is going to have a philo group, its obviously gonna be the other way around. Many schools have philosophy of physics programs where you graduate with a phd in philo and a ma in physics. the top one in the us is definitely u of pittsburgh. Again, though, this is a subfield of PHILOSOPHY not physics.
Re: Philosophy of Physics/Foundations of Physics!!!
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 2:17 am
by lyrero
Hi
I have read something like this in a very known campus of the University of California:
"Mr. So and So"
Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.
"Mrs. This and That"
Educational Physics
What exactly do you mean with Philo in physics? Sorry, because I dont know, and I think it is better not to think about it by myself, missconceptions can I made. Anyway, it sounds a little far from the mainstream of the physics community. A partner in school also likes it, but I dont talk with him so frequently.
Re: Philosophy of Physics/Foundations of Physics!!!
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 7:45 am
by iteloo
Unfortunately there aren't that many programs, especially if you don't have a good background in philosophy. Oxford has a pretty established group.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ppox/teaching/gr ... index.html
There are a few options, if you don't have much background you can go for the one year M.St ; if you have some experience then there's the B.Phil. I think both can potentially lead to a D.Phil, which is an equivalent of a Ph.D.
Good luck!
Re: Philosophy of Physics/Foundations of Physics!!!
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 12:00 pm
by grae313
lyrero wrote:What exactly do you mean with Philo in physics?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_physics
Re: Philosophy of Physics/Foundations of Physics!!!
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 3:34 pm
by limbophysics
Well, thanks for the advice!
I think Oxford and perhaps U Pitt are a bit out of my range (660 PGRE, though I didn't study much and plan to retake it).
What about other 2nd tier schools with good PhilPhys programs? Any recommendations on journals that would include authors who write about philosophy of physics?