PETER VICKERS
Address: Department of Philosophy, Durham University, 51 Old Elvet, DH1 3HN, UK
Email: peter.vickers@durham.ac.uk
Webpages: www.petervickersphilosophy.com / https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/peter-vickers/
Academic Career
2022 – ongoing: Professor, Durham University, UK
2017 – 2022: Associate Professor and Reader in Philosophy at the Durham University, UK.
2015 – 2017: Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Durham University, UK.
2011 – 2015: Lecturer in Philosophy at Durham University, UK.
2010 – 2011: Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh, USA.
Monographs
• (2022): Identifying Future-Proof Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• (2013): Understanding Inconsistent Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Selected Edited Collections
• (2021), co-edited with Timothy D. Lyons: Contemporary Scientific Realism: The Challenge from the History of Science. New York: Oxford University Press.
Selected Articles
• (2022, with James Fraser): ‘Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/721635.
• (2020): ‘Disarming the Ultimate Historical Challenge to Scientific Realism’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 71(3): 987-1012.
• (2019): ‘Towards a Realistic Success-to-Truth Inference for Scientific Realism’, Synthese 196(2): 571-585.
• (2017): ‘Understanding the Selective Realist Defence Against the PMI’, Synthese 194(9): 3221-3232.
• (2017, with Henry Taylor): ‘Conceptual Fragmentation and the Rise of Eliminativism’, European Journal for Philosophy of Science 7(1): 17-40.
• (2013): ‘A Confrontation of Convergent Realism’, Philosophy of Science 80(2): 189-211.
• (2011, with Juha Saatsi): ‘Miraculous Success? Inconsistency and Untruth in Kirchhoff’s Diffraction Theory’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 62(1): 29-46.
Awards and Grants
• Leverhulme Research Project Grant, £269k, October 2021 – September 2024.
• British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, £147k, Dec 2019 – Feb 2021.
• AHRC 42-month Early Career Research Project Grant, £214k, August 2014 – January 2018.
• AHRC 6-month Research Development Grant, £21k, February 2012 – September 2012.
• Royal Institute of Philosophy Jacobsen Fellowship, £8k, October 2008 – September 2009.