Fundamental Causation: Physics, Metaphysics, and the Deep Structure of the World (Routledge Studies in Metaphysics) - Softcover

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Christopher Gregory Weaver received his PhD in philosophy from Rutgers University (2015) where he studied with Barry Loewer, David Albert, Tom Banks (physicist), and Jonathan Schaffer. Weaver is the author of a recent research monograph entitled, Fundamental Causation: Physics, Metaphysics, and the Deep Structure of the World (Routledge, 2019), along with many peer-reviewed articles in such venues as Erkenntnis, the Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Synthese, and the International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion. Weaver is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Weaver is also a member of the Illinois Center for Advanced Studies of the Universe, and in Spring 2021, Dr. Weaver will be a Visiting Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Philosophy of Science.