Craig Callender

Craig Callender is an American philosopher born in 1968. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, with research interests in the philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, and metaphysics. Callender received his PhD in 1997 from Rutgers University for his thesis "Time's Arrow," under the supervision of Robert Weingard. From 1996 to 2000, he was part of the Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. Currently, he also serves as the co-director of the Institute for Practical Ethics at UC San Diego and is a member of the International Science Council's Committee for Freedom and Responsibility of Science. Callender has contributed articles to "Scientific American" on the philosophy of time and has been a participant in discussions at the World Science Festival.