Jill North

I am an Assistant Professor in the philosophy and physics departments at Yale, where I studied physics and philosophy as an undergraduate. I am also affiliated with the programs in history of science and medicine and cognitive science. I specialize in philosophy of physics. I also have interests in metaphysics and philosophy of science.

Before working at Yale, I was a Bersoff post-doc in the philosophy department at NYU, and before that, a graduate student in philosophy at Rutgers.

• CV
• • Department of Philosophy
  • Yale University
  • PO Box 208306
  • New Haven, CT 06520-8306
  • Campus address: 405a CT Hall
  • jill.north@yale.edu

Papers in progress

• The Structure of Classical Mechanics
• An Empirical Approach to Symmetry and Probability
• The Structure of Quantum Mechanics
• Chances Are
• Lessons Learned Classically
• How to Shake the Grues

Publications

• The "Structure" of Physics: A Case Study
• Time in Thermodynamics (forthcoming, Oxford Handbook on Time)
• Two Views on Time Reversal
• Understanding the Time-Asymmetry of Radiation
• What is the Problem about the Time-Asymmetry of Thermodynamics?: A Reply to Price

Book reviews

• Mathias Frisch, Consistency, Asymmetry and Non-Locality: A Philosophical Investigation of Classical Electrodynamics
• Max Jammer, Concepts of Simultaneity: From Antiquity to Einstein and Beyond