Website: www.bu.edu/cphs
Interests: Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Physics; Science, Technology and Values; History of Science

Alisa Bokulich received her Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame’s Program in History and Philosophy of Science in 2001.

She has been the recipient of several National Science Foundation Grants. In Fall of 2010, she became the director of B.U.’s Center for Philosophy & History of Science.

Professor Bokulich’s teaching at Boston University includes courses in the philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, gender, race and science, and science, technology, and values. She is also affiliated with the interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Science and Religion.

Publications

Books:

Reexamining the Quantum-Classical Relation: Beyond Reductionism and Pluralism (Cambridge University Press, 2008). CUP; Amazon.com

• Review by Sir Michael Berry
• Review by N. P. Landsman
• Review by Gordon Belot and Lisa Jansson
• Review by Dennis Dieks

Philosophy of Quantum Information and Entanglement, co-edited with Gregg Jaeger (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Scientific Structuralism (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science), co-edited with Peter Bokulich (Springer, 2010).

Refereed Journal Articles:

“How Scientific Models Can Explain”, Synthese 180 (1): 33-45 (2011).

“Three Approaches to the Quantum-Classical Relation: Bohr, Heisenberg & Dirac” Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 59: (January 2010): 3-28.

“Can Classical Structures Explain Quantum Phenomena?” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 59(2): 217-235 (2008)

“Paul Dirac and the Einstein-Bohr Debate,” Perspectives on Science 16(1): 103-114 (2008).

“Heisenberg Meets Kuhn: Closed Theories and Paradigms,” Philosophy of Science 73: 90-107 (2006).

“Niels Bohr’s Generalization of Classical Mechanics,” (co-authored by Peter Bokulich) Foundations of Physics 35(3): 347-371 (2005).

“Open or Closed? Dirac, Heisenberg, and the Relation between Classical and Quantum Mechanics,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 35 (3): 377-396 (2004).

“Horizontal Models: From Bakers to Cats,” Philosophy of Science 70: 609-627 (2003).

“Quantum Measurements and Supertasks,” International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 17: 127-136 (2003).

“Rethinking Thought Experiments,” Perspectives on Science 9: 285-307 (2001).

Book Chapters, Encyclopedia Entries, etc.:

“Bohr’s Correspondence Principle,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

“Explanatory Fictions, ” in M. Suarez (Ed.) Fictions in Science: Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealization (Routledge, 2008: 91-109).

“Philosophy of Science,” Encyclopedia of Science and Religion (Macmillan, 2003).

“History of Philosophy of Science,” Encyclopedia of Science and Religion (Macmillan, 2003).