Professor Belot’s primary interests are in philosophy of physics and philosophy of science. Most of his recent papers are concerned with inter-theory relations in physics or with the interpretative, methodological, and metaphysical implications of symmetry principles. He may or may not be writing a book about the notion of geometric possibility required by relationalism about space.
Before joining the faculty at Michigan in 2008, he taught at Princeton, 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.

"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.