Paul Humphreys

Paul Humphreys (1950–2022) was a British professor of philosophy at the University of Virginia, specializing in philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology. His interests included the metaphysics and epistemology of emergence, computational science, empiricism, and realism. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Sussex, and then went to Stanford University where he received his Ph.D. in 1976. He joined the University of Virginia faculty in 1978, where he spent the rest of his career. He was a significant contributor to the philosophy of emergent properties, as well as other areas in the philosophy of science and philosophy of probability. Humphreys published a substantial number of books and scholarly articles. He was Series Editor for the Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Science. He served on the editorial boards of the American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy of Science, and Foundations of Science.