Eric B. Winsberg
Associate Professor

Ph.D. Indiana , 1999. Joined the Philosophy Department faculty at USF in 2001 after a postdoctoral fellowship in History and Philosophy of Science at Northwestern University. His principal interests are in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of physics; especially in the role of computer simulations in the physical sciences, and in the foundations of statistical physics. Winsberg is the author of several articles on these topics that have appeared in such journals as Philosophy of Science, the Journal of Philosophy, and Synthese. He is currently visiting the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (ZiF) at the University of Bielefeld in Germany , where he is working on a monograph of philosophical reflections on science in the age of simulation, and will visit the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Durham next spring to participate in the Institute theme on "modeling."

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