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Distinguished Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh PA USA 15260. jdnorton@pitt.edu. 412 624 5896. Latest. In his treatment of spacetime singularities, Einstein privileged analytic expressions over geometry. Modern relativists do the reverse and thus find Einstein's discussion baffling.
John Daniel Norton (born 1953) is an Australian philosopher of physics and distinguished professor of the history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh. Biography [ edit ] He had originally studied chemical engineering at the University of New South Wales (1971–1974).
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John D. Norton. Professor Norton studies the history and philosophy of physics (relativity, quantum theory, and statistical physics), with a special interest in general relativity, and has published extensively on the detailed steps of Einstein's discovery of general and special relativity and also on many aspects of the theory's philosophical ...
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Interview in J. Ferret and J. Symons, eds., Philosophy of Physics: 5+1 Questions. Automatic Press, 2010, pp. 113-119. Download. Downloaddraft. “Interview with John D. Norton,” The Reasoner, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 2010, pp. 2-4. http://www.thereasoner.org or download. Interviewed concerning time travel for NPR show “WhyY” “It’s About Time” aired Nov...
1980 Review of A. Koyré, Galileo Studies (Harvester, 1978) in Proceedings of the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, 11(1979-1980), pp. 18-21. 1983 Review of M. Friedman, Foundations of Space-Time Theories(Princeton Univ. Press, 1983) in Science, December 1983. 1986 Review of R. Torretti, Relativity a...
1971-1974 B.E. (Chem. Eng.) with Honours I and University Medal, School of Chemical Engineering, University of N.S.W., Sydney, Australia. 1978-1981 Ph.D. in the School of History and Philosophy of Science, University of N.S.W. Title of Dissertation: "The Historical Foundation of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity." 1982-1983 Postdoctoral resea...
Associate Editor, Philosophy of Science, January 1990-December 1994 Communicating Editor: Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 1996- Editor. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Philosophy of Physics (Space and Time) Section. 1998- Inventoryof articled edited. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics Associate Editor, 2001-2003; Ac...
Member, Governing Board of the Philosophy of Science Association. Elected February 2007- 31st December 2010. Executive Committee, Einstein Papers Project, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. 2001- Advisory Board, Sydney Center for the Foundations of Science, University of Sydney. Joined September, 2009 Board, Seven Pines Symposium, St...
Minor appearances in BBC4 Documentary Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time Aired Monday, December 14, 2015. Brief appearance in simplified PBS version, Inside Einstein's Mind (or here). Aired as NOVA, November 25, 2015.
Consider Mohawk chief John Norton ’s role in the pivotal Battle of Queenston Heights during the War of 1812. Without the efforts of Norton and about 80 Grand River warriors in repelling more than 1,000 American soldiers, the battle might have been lost, and the tide of war turned. Norton was, by any measure, unique.
"Waiting for Landauer," John D Norton, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 42, 184 (2011) "Challenges to Bayesian Confirmation Theory," John D Norton, Philosophy of Statistics, Vol. 7: Handbook of the Philosophy of Science. Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay and Malcolm R. Forster (eds.) Elsevier (2011)
