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, 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 UK. During that time, he wrote a monograph entitled Science in the Age of Computer Simulation, which he hopes will appear soon with the University of Chicago Press.

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