Jill North

I am a Professor in the philosophy department at Rutgers, where I got my PhD. I specialize in philosophy of physics. I also have interests in metaphysics and philosophy of science.

Before coming to Rutgers, I was an Associate Professor in the philosophy department at Cornell. Before that, I was an Assistant Professor in the philosophy department at Yale, where I had studied physics and philosophy as an undergraduate. And before that, I was a Bersoff post-doc in the philosophy department at NYU.

Together with Elisabeth Camp and Elizabeth Harman, I am the co-founder and co-organizer of a workshop series, Athena in Action: A Networking and Mentoring Workshop for Graduate Student Women in Philosophy.

• Formulations of Classical Mechanics
• A New Approach to the Relational-Substantival Debate
• The Structure of a Quantum World
• Time in Thermodynamics
• An Empirical Approach to Symmetry and Probability
• The “Structure” of Physics: A Case Study
• Two Views on Time Reversal
• Understanding the Time-Asymmetry of Radiation
• What is the Problem about the Time-Asymmetry of Thermodynamics?: A Reply to Price

• Gordon Belot, Geometric Possibility
• Mathias Frisch, Consistency, Asymmetry and Non-Locality: A Philosophical Investigation of Classical Electrodynamics
• Max Jammer, Concepts of Simultaneity: From Antiquity to Einstein and Beyond