Peter J. Lewis

Peter John Lewis is a professor of philosophy at Dartmouth College.^[1]

Peter J. Lewis
Education
Education	University of California, Irvine (PhD) University of California, Irvine (M.A.) Brasenose College, Oxford (B.A.)
Thesis	The GRW theory and vagueness in quantum mechanics (1996)
Doctoral advisors	Jeffrey A. Barrett, Karel Lambert, Brian Skyrms
Philosophical work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic
Institutions	Dartmouth College University of Miami
Main interests	philosophy of quantum physics
Website	https://sites.google.com/site/peterlewisphilosophy/Home

Life and works

Lewis earned his B.A. in physics from Oxford University in 1988, then continued his studies at the University of California, Irvine, where he completed an M.A. in philosophy in 1992 and a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1996, with a dissertation on The GRW theory and vagueness in quantum mechanics.^[2] Before joining Dartmouth College, Lewis was professor of philosophy at the University of Miami from 2001 to 2017.^[3]

Lewis's article, "Quantum Mechanics, Orthogonality, and Counting",^[4] where he wrote that within Spontaneous Specialization Models "arithmetic does not apply to ordinary macroscopic objects" has been called the start of "the presumed failure of the enumeration principle within the Spontaneous Specialization Models."^[5] This "Counting Anomaly" has been discussed and critiqued by other philosophers, some of whom have argued against him^[6] while others have upheld this work.^[7]

Selected publications

Books

• Lewis, Peter J. (2016). Quantum Ontology. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190469825.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-046982-5.^{[8][9][10][11][12][13]}