Staff profile
Overview
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| Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
|---|---|---|
| Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Philosophy |
Biography
I joined the department in 2019 as a British Academy postdoctoral fellow. My fellowship project “Renormalization: a Philosophical Study” traces the conceptual development of renormalization theory in post-war physics and assesses its implications for debates about scientific realism and emergence in the philosophy of science.
Publications
Chapter in book
- Fraser, James D. (2020). Towards a Realist View of Quantum Field Theory. In Scientific Realism and the Quantum. French, Steven & Juha, Saatsi Oxford University Press.
Journal Article
- Fraser, James D. (2021). The twin origins of renormalization group concepts. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 89: 114-128.
- Fraser, James D. (2018). Renormalization and the Formulation of Scientific Realism. Philosophy of Science 85(5): 1164-1175.
- Fraser, James D. (2020). The Real Problem with Perturbative Quantum Field Theory. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 71(2): 391-413.
- Fraser, James D. (2016). Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Finite Systems. Philosophy of Science 83(4): 585.