Eric Winsberg

Short Biography

Eric Winsberg received his PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from Indiana University in 1999. After a postdoctoral fellowship in History and Philosophy of Science at Northwestern University, he joined the Philosophy Department Faculty at the University of South Florida in 2001, where he is now an associate professor. His principal interests are in the philosophy of science and philosophy of physics; especially in the role of computer simulations in the physical sciences, and in the foundations of statistical mechanics. Winsberg is the author of several articles on these topics that have appeared in journals such as Philosophy of Science, the Journal of Philosophy, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics and Synthese. He has recently held visiting fellowships at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (ZiF) at the University of Bielefeld in Germany, and the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Durham in the United Kingdom. During that time, he wrote a monograph entitled Science in the Age of Computer Simulation, which will appear soon with the University of Chicago Press.