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Robert DiSalle is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Western University. His research focuses on the foundations of modern physics and its historical development in relation to philosophy. He has explored the connections between general topics in philosophy and science, emphasizing theories of space and time from Newton to the present. DiSalle's work addresses issues of metaphysics and epistemology in science, including realism, conceptual change, and scientific explanation. He has supervised Ph.D. research in areas related to prominent historical figures like Newton, Leibniz, Kant, Einstein, Poincaré, Heisenberg, and Carnap. His recent publications include articles on absolute space in Newton's theory of relativity and a revised edition of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on space-time and inertial frames.
Streams include Archaeology and Bioarchaeology, and Sociocultural Anthropology.