Dr Peter Evans

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy

+61 7 336 52613

p.evans@uq.edu.au

Room E332, Forgan Smith Building (1)

Featured projects	Duration
A philosophical exploration of simulating and controlling the quantum world ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award	2017–2019

Publications

Book Chapter (1)

Journal Articles (16)

Book Chapter

Evans, Peter W. and Friederich, Simon (2019). Retrocausality in quantum mechanics. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. edited by Edward N. Zalta. Stanford, CA, United States: Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University.

Journal Articles

Evans, Peter W., Hangleiter, Dominik and Thébault, Karim P. Y. (2024). How to engineer a quantum wavefunction. Philosophy of Science, 91 (1), 37-57. doi: 10.1017/psa.2023.87

Milburn, Gerard J., Shrapnel, Sally and Evans, Peter W. (2023). Physical grounds for causal perspectivalism. Entropy, 25 (8) 1190, 1-24. doi: 10.3390/e25081190

Evans, Peter W. (2021). A sideways look at faithfulness for quantum correlations. The Journal of Philosophy, 118 (1), 28-42. doi: 10.5840/jphil202111812

Evans, Peter W. (2020). The end of a classical ontology for quantum mechanics?. Entropy, 23 (1) 12, 12-18. doi: 10.3390/e23010012

Evans, Peter W. and Thébault, Karim P. Y. (2020). What can bouncing oil droplets tell us about quantum mechanics?. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 10 (3) 39. doi: 10.1007/s13194-020-00301-0

Evans, P. W. and Thébault, K. P. Y. (2020). On the limits of experimental knowledge. Philosophical Transactions A. Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 378 (2177) 20190235, 20190235. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2019.0235

Evans, Peter W. (2020). Perspectival objectivity: Or: how i learned to stop worrying and love observer-dependent reality. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 10 (2) 19, 1-21. doi: 10.1007/s13194-020-00286-w

Baron, Sam and Evans, Peter W. (2018). What's so spatial about time anyway?. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 72 (1), 000-000. doi: 10.1093/bjps/axy077

Evans, Peter W. (2018). Quantum causal models, faithfulness, and retrocausality. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 69 (3), 745-774. doi: 10.1093/bjps/axw037

Mazzola, Claudio and Evans, Peter W. (2017). Do Reichenbachian common cause systems of arbitrary finite size exist?. Foundations of Physics, 47 (12), 1543-1558. doi: 10.1007/s10701-017-0124-1

Evans, Peter W., Gryb, Sean and Thébault, Karim P. Y. (2016). Ψ-epistemic quantum cosmology?. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 56, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2016.10.005

Evans, Peter W. (2015). Review: Nicholas J.J. Smith. Logic: The Laws of Truth. Philosophy in Review, 35 (1), 41-43.

Evans, Peter W. (2015). Retrocausality at no extra cost. Synthese, 192 (4), 1139-1155. doi: 10.1007/s11229-014-0605-0

Evans, P. W., Price, Huw and Wharton, K. B. (2013). New slant on the EPR-Bell experiment. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 64 (2), 297-324. doi: 10.1093/bjps/axr052

Baron, Sam, Evans, Peter and Miller, Kristie (2010). From Timeless Physical Theory to Timelessness. Humana.Mente Journal of Philosophical Studies, 13 (13), 35-60.

Evans, PW and Robson, BA (2006). Comparison of quark mixing in the standard and generation models. International Journal of Modern Physics E, 15 (3), 617-625. doi: 10.1142/S0218301306004077

Areas of research

Logic and the Philosophy of Science