YURI V. BALASHOV  

Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
107 Peabody Hall
The University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602


Office: 124 Peabody Hall
Phone: (706) 583-0529
Fax: (706) 542-2839
Email: yuri@uga.edu
Web page: http://www.arches.uga.edu/~yuri

EDUCATION

RESEARCH INTERESTS

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
  1. "Defining 'Exdurance'," Philosophical Studies, forthcoming.
  2. "Times of Our Lives: Negotiating the Presence of Experience," American Philosophical Quarterly 42 (2005): 295-309 (forthcoming).
  3. "On Vagueness, 4D and Diachronic Universalism," The Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83 (2005): 523-531.
  4. "Special Relativity, Coexistence and Temporal Parts: A Reply to Gilmore," Philosophical Studies 124 (2005): 1–40.
  5. "Temporal Parts and Superluminal Motion," Philosophical Papers 32 (2003): 1-13.
  6. "Restricted Diachronic Composition, Immanent Causality, and Objecthood," Philosophical Papers 32 (2003): 23-30.
  7. "Presentism and Relativity: A Critical Notice," The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 54 (2003): 327-346.  Co-authored with Michel Janssen.
  8. "What is a Law of Nature? The Broken-Symmetry Story," The Southern Journal of Philosophy 40 (2002), 459-473.
  9. "Relativity and Persistence," Philosophy of Science 67 (2000): S549-S562.
  10. "Persistence and Space-Time: Philosophical Lessons of the Pole and Barn," The Monist 83 (2000): 321-340.
  11. "Enduring and Perduring Objects in Minkowski Space-Time," Philosophical Studies 99 (2000): 129-166.
  12. "Zero-Value Physical Quantities," Synthese 119 (1999): 253-286.
  13. "Relativistic Objects," Noûs 33 (1999): 644-662.
  14. "Uniformitarianism in Cosmology: Background and Philosophical Implications of the Steady-State Theory," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 25B (1995): 933-58.
  15. "Should Plato's Line Be Divided in the Mean and Extreme Ratio?"Ancient Philosophy 14 (1994): 283-95.
  16. "Duhem, Quine, and the Multiplicity of Scientific Tests,"Philosophy of Science 61 (1994): 608-28.
  17. "Transcendental Background to the Anthropic Reasoning in Cosmology," Man & World 25 (1992): 115-32.
  18. "On the Evolution of Natural Laws," British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 43 (1992): 343-70.
  19. "The Anthropic Cosmological Principle in the Mirror of Criticism," Filosofskie Nauki (Studies in Philosophy) (September 1990): 30-40. (In Russian)
  20. "Cosmology as a Non-Local Physics," Filosofska Mysel (Philosophical Thought) (1990, No. 4): 54-64. (In Bulgarian)
  21. "The Anthopic Priniciple: History and Present Status," Priroda (Nature) (January 1989): 23-32.  With Vadim Kazyutinsky. (In Russian)
  22. "Is Evolution of the Fundamental Laws of Nature Possible?" Filosofskie Nauki (Studies in Philosophy) (February 1989): 18-28. (In Russian)
  23. "Anthropic Arguments in Modern Cosmology," Voprosy Filosofii (Problems of Philosophy) (July 1988): 117-27. (In Russian)
  24. "Do Metrological Laws Exist?" Filosofskie Nauki(Studies in Philosophy)(June, 1985): 35-39. (In Russian)
  25. "A Method of Measuring the Temperature of the Laser Plasma from the Integrated Intensity of the Braking Radiation Continuum," Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR 118 (1985): 77-80. (With P. Ivanov and G. Managadze)


Articles Contributed to Books

  1. "Hermann Bondi," "Fedor Bredikhin," "Platon Poretsky," "Stepan Rumovsky," "Vsevolod Sharonov," articles (totaling 2,800 words) commissioned for Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Thomas Hockey et al., eds. Dordrecht: Kluwer, forthcoming in 2006.
  2. "Laws of Nature" and "Symmetry, in J. Wentzel Vrede van Huyssteen, ed., Encyclopedia of Science and Religion.  New York: Macmillan, 2003, pp. 508-513; 852-853.
  3. "Laws of Physics and the Universe," in Yuri Balashov and Vladimir Vizgin, eds., Einstein Studies in Russia. Boston; Basel; Berlin: Birkhäuser, 2002, pp. 107-148.
  4. "On Stages, Worms, and Relativity," in Time, Reality, and Experience, Craig Callender, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 223-252.
  5. "Steady-State Cosmology: Background, Development, and Methodological Lessons," in G. Idlis and G. Kurtick, eds., Studies in the History of Astronomy. Moscow: Nauka, 2000, pp. 61-90.
  6. "The Anthropic Principle: Facts and Speculations," in L.F. Fesenkova (ed.), Global Evolutionism.  Moscow: Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1994, pp. 108-123. (Co-authored with S.V. Illarionov.)
  7. "Observer in Cosmology," in A. Panchenko (ed.), Humanities, Mathematics and Natural Sciences: On the Way to Dialog.  Moscow: Institute for Scientific Information of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1991, pp. 80-119.
  8. "The Anthropic Principle: Physical, Cosmological, and Philosophical Aspects," in A. Grib et al., eds., Anthropic Prinicple in the Contemporary Scientific Picture of the World.  Proceedings of the Seminar (Leningrad, 28–30 November 1989), Part I.  Leningrad: Leningrad State University, etc., pp. 14-27.
  9. "Tsiolkovsky’s The Cause of the Cosmos and Modern Cosmology," in V. V. Kazyutinsky et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 18-20th Tsiolkovsky Conferences. Moscow: Institute for History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1988, pp. 59-68.
  10. "On the Classification of Cosmological Theories," in D. Martynov et al. (eds.), Universe, Astronomy, and Philosophy. Moscow: Moscow State University Press, 1988, pp. 52-57.
  11. "Mind and the Universe: Evolution, Self-Organization, Meaning," in V. Ermolayeva, ed., Global Problems and the Future of Civilization. Moscow: Institute for Scientific Information: Arts and Humanities, 1987, pp. 124-148.
  12. "Necessity and Chance in Modern Cosmology," in V.L. Rabinovich et al., eds., Abstracts of the 8th International Congress of Logic Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 5, Part 2.  Moscow: Nauka, 1987, pp. 53-56.
  13. "Cosmology and Weltanschauung," in A. Panchenko, ed., Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 1.  Moscow: Institute for Scientific Information: Arts and Humanities, 1987, pp. 89-123. (Co-authored with Vadim Kazyutinsky.)


Essay Reviews

  1. "Two Theories of the Universe," Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 29 (1998): 141-149. Essay review of H. Kragh, Cosmology and Controversy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996).
  2. "Resource Letter AP-1: The Anthropic Principle," American Journal of Physics 59 (1991): 1069-76.
  3. "Multifaced Anthropic Principle," Comments on Astrophysics 15 (1990): 19-28.
  4. "The Anthropic Principle in Cosmology: 16 Years After," Zemlya i Vselennaya (Earth and Universe) (July-August 1990): 32-36.
  5. "Philosophy and Science: Aspects of Contact and Gaps of Misunderstanding," Voprosy Filosofii (Problems of Philosophy) (September 1985): 147-52.  Essay review of Alwyn van der Merwe, ed., Old and New Questions in Physics, Philosophy, Cosmology, and Theoretical Biology (New York: Plenum Press, 1983).


Short Book Reviews

  1. Norriss Hetherington, ed., The Encyclopedia of Cosmology: Historical, Philosophical, and Scientific Foundations of Modern Cosmology: in American Journal of Physics 62 (1994): 475-76.
  2. R. M. Nugayev, Reconstruction of Scientific Theory Change: in Erkenntnis 38 (1993): 429-32.
  3. Willem B. Drees, Beyond the Big Bang: Quantum Cosmologies and God:: in American Journal of Physics 59 (1991): 1053-54.
  4. John Leslie, Universes and Physical Cosmology and Philosophy: in Priroda (Nature) (November 1990): 123-25. (In Russian)

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Other Articles
  1. "Karl Jaspers’s Anthropic Cosmological Principle," Folia Baeriana 6 (1993): 189-192.
  2. "Studies on the Anthropic Principle in Cosmology," Diotima 21 (1993): 63-69.
  3. "Philosophical Roots of the Anthropic Principle," Theoria et Historia Scientiarum 3 (1993): 23-30.
  4. "Science and Philosophical Postmodernism: An Analytic Survey," Referativnyi Zhurnal--Filosofia (Reviews of Philosophical Literature) (August 1991): 31-75.

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PAPERS PRESENTED AT APA AND PSA MEETINGS

APA

  1. "Negotiating the Presence of Experience," The Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Boston, Massachusetts (December 2004).
  2. "Temporal Parts and Superluminal Motion," The Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, California (March 2003).
  3. "Relativity and the Present: A Critical Notice of William Craig, Time and the Metaphysics of Relativity," The Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, Georgia (December 2001).
  4. "Persistence and Space-Time: Philosophical Lessons of the Pole and Barn," The Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Albuquerque, NM (April 2000).
  5. "Zero-Value Quantities," The Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Washington, DC (December 1998).
  6. "Relativistic Objects," The Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, Illinois (May 1998).
  7. "What Is a Law of Nature?--The Broken-Symmetry Story," The Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (December 1997).
  8. Invited comments on "Why Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics Works: Universality and the Renormalization Group," by R. Batterman, Symposium on the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics, The Central Division Meetings of the APA, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (April 1997).
  9. "Branching, Modality, and the Laws of Nature," The Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, Georgia (December 1996).
  10. "Endurance, Coexistence, and Relativity," The Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Seattle, Washington (April 1996).
PSA
  1. "Relativity and Persistence," Symposium on Special Relativity and Ontology, PSA Biennial Meeting, Kansas City (October 1998).


OTHER CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, AND INVITED TALKS

  1. "Persistence and Mereological Universalism," Philosophy Colloquium, Duke University, Durham, NC (October 2005).
  2. Invited comments on "Theories of Location," by Josh Parsons, the Sixth Annual Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Western Washington University (August 2005).
  3. "Stage Theory, Universalism and Lingering Properties," The 8th Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference on "Time and Identity," Moscow, ID, April 2005.
  4. "Times of Our Lives: Negotiating the Presence of Experience," Philosophy Department Colloquium, University of Georgia, November 2004.
  5. "The Anthropic Cosmological Principe: Thirty Years Later," Lunch-in-theory talk, Center for Humanities and Arts, University of Georgia, March 2003.
  6. "Diachronic Composition and Superluminal Motion," Conference in Memory of James T. Cushing, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, November 6–7, 2002.
  7. "Some Philosophical Lessons of Twentieth-Century Cosmology," Theoretical Physics Seminar, University of Georgia, March 27, 2002.
  8. "On Stages, Worms and Relativity," the International Conference on "Time, Reality, and Experience," The London School of Economics (London, 28-29 September 2000).
  9. "Laws of Nature and the Universe," the Summer School on "Cosmology and Philosophy," Santander, Spain, 10-14 July 2000.
  10. "Laws and Initial Conditions in Cosmology," the Seven Pines Symposium on Issues in Modern Cosmology, Lewis, Wisconsin, May 2000.
  11. "Zero-Value Physical Quantities," Philosophy Colloquia at the University of Georgia (April 1999), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (January 1999), Rice University (January 1999), and Northwestern University (January 1998).
  12. Invited comments on "Science and New Age Spirituality: Mind over Matter in the Academy," by John Stroup, Scientia Colloquium (1998-99 lecture series on "Science and Religion: An Examination"), Rice University (November 1998).
  13. "The Anthropic Principle: 25 Years Later," Rice University (September 1998).
  14. "Laws of Nature and the Universe: Some Philosophical Lessons of Steady-State Cosmology," History and Philosophy of Science Colloquium, Rice University (February 1998).
  15. "Relativity and Persistence," Philosophy and History of Science Colloquium, University of Indiana, Bloomington (February 1998).
  16. Invited comments on "Temporal Parts and Supervenient Causation," by D. Zimmerman, Philosophy Department Colloquium, University of Notre Dame (November 1997).
  17. "Endurance, Perdurance, Coexistence, and Relativity," Philosophy Department Colloquium, University of Notre Dame (October 1996).
  18. "Cosmology and Uniformitarianism: Background and Philosophical Significance of the Steady-State Theory," The 14th Annual MePHiSToS Conference, University of Indiana, Bloomington (April 1995).
  19. "Is Evolution of Natural Laws Possible?" Foundations of Physics Seminar, University of Notre Dame (February 1993).
  20. "Karl Jaspers’s Anthropic Cosmological Principle," The Baer Bicentenary Conference of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tartu, Estonia (March 1992).
  21. "The Rise and Fall of the Steady-State Cosmology: Some Philosophical Lessons," Institute for History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia (February 1992).
  22. "Transcendental Background to the Anthropic Reasoning in Cosmology," Moscow State University (November 1991); Third International Congress on "Cosmic Space & Philosophy," Mytilene, Greece (September 1991); International Seminar on "Theology, Philosophy, and Cosmology: on West and East," Krakow, Poland (May 1991).
  23. "Laws of Nature in the Time-Dependent Universe," International Seminar "The Problem of Time in Cosmology," Leningrad, USSR (November 1990).
  24. "The Anthropic Principle in the Mirror of Criticism," International Seminar "The Anthropic Principle in the Contemporary Scientific Picture of the World," Leningrad, USSR (November 1989).
  25. "Cosmology as a Non-Local Physics," 4th International Symposium "Philosophy, Physics, Cosmos," Karjaly, Bulgaria (May 1988).
  26. "Necessity and Chance in Modern Cosmology," 8th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Moscow, USSR (August 1987).


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