Jill North Professor Assistant Professor 405a CT Hall 432-1675 jill.north@yale.edu Personal Website Education PhD 2004, Rutgers University Areas of interest Philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, metaphysics I am currently working on issues stemming from my dissertation on the direction of time, such as the nature of time reversal: how do we tell when a theory of physics is asymmetric with respect to time, and therefore gives us reason to infer the existence of an objective past-future distinction?  I am also working on various topics in probability, from the perspective of both metaphysics and of physics.  I have recently become interested in the idea of structure as it is used in physics: what do we mean by the structure of a given physical theory? What do we say when there is more than one mathematical formulation, or structure, for a given theory? Current or recent courses taught Philosophy of physics (fall) Introduction to philosophy (fall) Philosophy of science (spring) Seminar: Direction of time (spring) Probability in physics (seminar at NYU) Philosophy of science (NYU) Direction of time (seminar at NYU) Publications “Understanding the Time-Asymmetry of Radiation,” Philosophy of Science (Proceedings), vol. 70, December 2003, pp. 1086-1097. “What is the Problem about the Time-Asymmetry of Thermodynamics? – A Reply to Price,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 53, March 2002, pp. 121-136. Works in progress “Symmetry and Probability” “Two Views on Time Reversal” Book review: Mathias Frisch, Inconsistency, Asymmetry and Non-Locality: A Philosophical Investigation of Classical Electrodynamics, forthcoming in Philosophy of Science. “The ‘Structure’ of Physics: A Case Study.”