Graduate alum returns to his anteater roots
Graduate alum returns to his anteater roots
- January 26, 2015
- Manchak, Ph.D. ’09, is newest faculty member in LPS
John Manchak comes to UCI from the University of Washington, where he became an associate
professor of philosophy in 2013. A philosopher of physics, his particular expertise
is in general relativity and the structure of spacetime. His work has appeared in
such venues as Philosophy of Science, Foundations of Physics, and The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Physics. He received both a B.A. in philosophy and a B.S. in physics from Brigham Young University
in 2004, and a Ph.D. in logic and philosophy of science from UC Irvine in 2009.
Manchak joins Jeffrey Barrett and James Weatherall in LPS’s strong, active research
group in the philosophy of physics which was recently ranked second in the world by
the Philosophical Gourmet Report (tied with University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and
University of Western Ontario).
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