JOHN T. ROBERTS Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies

John T. Roberts works in the intersection of metaphysics and philosophy of science.  His book _The Law-Governed Universe_ was published in 2008 by Oxford University Press.  His published articles include ; "Leibniz on Force and Absolute Motion," Philosophy of Science (2003); "Contact with the Nomic, Parts I and II" (co-authored with John Earman) Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2005); and "A Puzzle about Laws, Symmetries, and Measurable Quantities," British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2008).  He is currently working on chance, probabilistic laws, and the fine-tuning argument. [Complete CV]