Wayne Myrvold, Western University

Research

Read how they describe their research on their Western University profile.

Latest funding

Thermodynamics as a resource theory: philosophical and foundational implications
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$19,127
Information-theoretic interpretations of quantum mechanics
SSHRC · 2015 · Principal investigator
$22,786
metaphysics within and without physics
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
$9,200

All 9 grants and awards

No publications available.

Thermodynamics as a resource theory: philosophical and foundational implications

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Myrvold, Wayne C.

Keywords: philosophy of physics; thermodynamics; statistical mechanics; quantum information theory; resource theories

$19,127

Information-theoretic interpretations of quantum mechanics

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Myrvold, Wayne C.

Keywords: philosophy; philosophy of science; philosophy of physics; foundations of physics; quantum information

$22,786

metaphysics within and without physics

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014

Principal investigators: Myrvold, Wayne C.

Keywords: physics; metaphysics; philosophy of science

$9,200

Conceptions of empirical success: historical and philosophical perspectives

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Myrvold, Wayne C.

Keywords: history of science; scientific methodology; confirmation theory; probability; decision theory

$9,855

Scientific inference: enriching the probabilistic framework

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Myrvold, Wayne C.

Keywords: scientific inference; confirmation; theory acceptance; resiliency; deliberative belief change

$54,608

Time and universe

Co-investigatorSSHRC2005Strategic Research Clusters Design Grants

Principal investigators: Savitt, Steven F.

$25,000

The study of time

Co-investigatorSSHRC2004Strategic Research Clusters Design Grants

Principal investigators: Savitt, Steven F.

$17,000

Mephistos: An International Graduate Student Conference in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Technology and Medicine

Principal investigatorSSHRC2003Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Myrvold, Wayne C.

Keywords: philosophy of science; philosophy of technology; philosophy of medicine; history of technology; history of medicine; history of science; sociology of medicine; sociology of science; sociology of technology

$10,000

Contemporary Issues in the Foundations of Quantum Theory

Principal investigatorSSHRC2000Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Myrvold, Wayne

Keywords: philosophy of physics; quantum theory; philosophy of logic; philosophy of mathematics

$10,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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