About
Professor Belot's primary interests are in philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, and metaphysics. His book, Geometric Possibility, explores the feasibility of adapting standard accounts of physical possibility to provide an account of geometric possibility of the sort required by relationalism about space. Many of his recent papers are concerned with inter-theory relations in physics or with the interpretative, methodological, and metaphysical implications of symmetry principles. Before joining the faculty at Michigan in 2008, he taught at Princeton University, New York University, and the University of Pittsburgh. He has held a post-doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Publications
Geometric Possibility, Oxford University Press, 2011.
"An Elementary Notion of Gauge Equivalence." General Relativity and Gravitation 40 (2008), 199-215.
"Dust, Time, and Symmetry." British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 56 (2005), 255-291.
"Whose Devil? Which Details?" Philosophy of Science 72 (2005), 128-153.
"Symmetry and Gauge Freedom." Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 34 (2003), 189-225.
"The Principle of Sufficient Reason." Journal of Philosophy XCVIII (2001), 55-74.
"Understanding Electromagnetism." British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 49 (1998), 531-555.
