Jan Faye

Jan Faye is a Danish philosopher of science and metaphysics. He is currently associate professor in philosophy at the University of Copenhagen.[1]

Early life

He is educated in philosophy and physics at the University of Copenhagen, was a Research Fellow under the Carlsberg Foundation, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, and held a postdoc at the University of Cambridge, England. He has taught philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark since 1995.

Research

Faye has contributed to a number of areas in philosophy including explanation,[2] interpretation, philosophy of the humanities and the natural sciences, evolutionary naturalism, philosophy of Niels Bohr,[3] and topics concerning time, causation, and backward causation (Retrocausality).[4]

Published books (In English)
  • The reality of the future. An essay on time, causation and backward causation. Odense University Press, Odense 1989, 320 pp. ISBN 87-7492-710-8[5]
  • Niels Bohr: His Heritage and Legacy. An anti-realist view of quantum mechanics. Series: Science and Philosophy, vol. 6. Kluwer academic publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London 1991, i-xxii + 263 pp. ISBN 0-7923-1294-5 Book reviews:[6][7],[8]
  • Rethinking Science. A Philosophical Introduction to the Unity of Science. Ashgate. Aldershot/Burlington/Singapore/Sidney 2002. i-viii + 219 pp. (An enlarged version of Athenes Kammer). ISBN 0-7546-0660-0
  • After postmodernism. A naturalistic reconstruction of the humanities. London: Palgrave Macmillan 2012, 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-230-34856-1
  • The Nature of Scientific Thinking. On Interpretation, Explanation, and Understanding. London: Palgrave Macmillan 2014, xiv + 333 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-38982-4[9][10]
  • Experience and Beyond. The Outline of a Darwinian Metaphysics. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016. xiv + 342 pages. ISBN 978-3-319-31076-3

Edited Books (In English)
  • with Henry Folse (eds.): Niels Bohr and Contemporary Philosophy. Preface and Introduction by Jan Faye og Henry Folse. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 153. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London 1994. i-xxvii + 377 pp. ISBN 0-7923-2378-5
  • with Uwe Scheffler and Max Urchs (eds.): Logic and Causal Reasoning. Preface and Introduction by J. Faye, U. Scheffler & M. Urchs (s. 1-25). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1994. i-ix + 287 pp. ISBN 3-05-002599-9
  • with Uwe Scheffler and Max Urchs (eds.): Perspectives on Time. Preface and Introduction by J. Faye, U. Scheffler & M. Urchs (s. 1-58). Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 189. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/-London 1997, 460 pp.mISBN 0-7923-4330-1
  • with Henry Folse (eds.): Causality and Complementary. Niels Bohr's Philosophical Writings, Volume 4. Preface and Introduction by Jan Faye og Henry Folse (vii, pp. 1–23). Ox Bow Press 1999. 191 pp. ISBN 1-881987-14-0
  • with Uwe Scheffler and Max Urchs (eds.): Things, Facts and Events. Preface and Introduction by Jan Faye, Uwe Scheffler & Max Urchs (pp. 1–64). Series: Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, vol. 76, Rodopi, Amsterdam/Atlanta 2000. 506 pp. ISBN 90-420-1533-0
  • with Evandro Agazzi (eds.):  The Problems of the Unity of Science. Introduction by  Evandro Agazzi og Jan Faye (pp. v-xiii) World Scientific Publishing Co. New Jersey/London/Singapore/Hong Kong 2001. 194 pp. ISBN 981-02-4791-5
  • with Paul Needham, Uwe Scheffler & Max Urchs (eds.): Nature's Principles. Preface and Introduction by Jan Faye, Paul Needham, Uwe Scheffler og Max Urchs. (s. 1-53).  Series: Logic, Epistemology and the Unity of Science, vol. 4. Springer. Dordrecht 2005. 292 pp. ISBN 1-4020-3257-9
  • with Henry Folse (eds.): Niels Bohr and Philosophy of Physics. Twenty First Century Perspectives. London: Bloomsbury 2017. ISBN 978-1-350-03511-9

References
  1. "Jan Faye". Staff - University of Copenhagen. 2005-03-30.
  2. Tschaepe, Mark Dietrich (2006). "Pragmatics and Pragmatic Considerations in Explanation". Contemporary Pragmatism. 6 (2): 25–44. doi:10.1163/18758185-90000115.
  3. Faye, Jan (2014). Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). "Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Fall 2014.
  4. Faye, Jan (2017). Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). "Backward Causation". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Winter 2017.
  5. Urchs, Max (1993). "Review of The Reality of the Future: An Essay on Time, Causation and Backward Causation". Erkenntnis (1975-). Springer. 38 (2): 273–279. doi:10.1007/BF01128985. JSTOR 20012473.
  6. Cushing, James T. (March 1994). "Niels Bohr: His Heritage and Legacy. Jan Faye". Philosophy of Science. 61: 149–150. doi:10.1086/289789.
  7. "Niels Bohr: His Heritage and Legacy: An Anti-Realist View of Quantum Mechanics. Jan Faye". Isis. 84: 169. March 1993. doi:10.1086/356425.
  8. Klaus Hentschel in Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences 44 (1994): 429-431.
  9. Regt, Henk W. de (12 November 2014). "Review of The Nature of Scientific Thinking: On Interpretation, Explanation, and Understanding". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
  10. Tschaepe, Mark (28 February 2015). "Jan Faye , The Nature of Scientific Thinking: On Interpretation, Explanation, and Understanding". Philosophy in Review. 35 (1): 14–16.
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