Associate Professor
Contact Information
SAV M397
Office Hours
SPR26: Wed 11:30am-12:30pm & Fri 4-5pm
Biography
Ph.D., Logic & Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine, 2016
M.A., Logic & Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine, 2014
B.A., Physics and Philosophy, Dartmouth College, 2011
Curriculum Vitae
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Research
Selected Research
- Feintzeig, B. (2023). The Classical–Quantum Correspondence (Elements in the Philosophy of Physics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009043557
- Steeger, Jer and Benjamin Feintzeig. "Extensions of bundles of C*-algebras." Reviews in Mathematical Physics, 33 (2021): 2150025.
- Steeger, Jer and Benjamin Feintzeig. "Is the classical limit 'singular'?" Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 88 (2021): 263–279.
- Feintzeig, Benjamin. "Deduction and Definability in Infinite Statistical Systems." Synthese 196, no. 5 (2019): 1831-1861.
- Feintzeig, Benjamin. "On the Choice of Algebra for Quantization." Philosophy of Science 85, no. 1 (2018): 102-125.
- Feintzeig, Benjamin. "Toward an Understanding of Parochial Observables." The British Journal for Philosophy of Science 69, no. 1 (2018): 161-191.
- Feintzeig, Benjamin. "On Theory Construction in Physics: Continuity from Classical to Quantum." Erkenntnis 82, no. 6 (2017): 1195-1210.
- Feintzeig, Benjamin, and Samuel C. Fletcher. "On Noncontextual, Non-Kolmogorovian Hidden Variable Theories." Foundations of Physics 47, no. 2 (2017): 294-315.
- Feintzeig, Benjamin. "Unitary Inequivalence in Classical Systems." Synthese 193, no. 9 (2016): 2685-2705.
- Feintzeig, Benjamin. "Hidden Variables and Incompatible Observables in Quantum Mechanics." The British Journal for Philosophy of Science 66, no. 4 (2015): 905-927.
- Feintzeig, Benjamin. "On Broken Symmetries and Classical Systems." Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 52 (2015): 267-273.
- Feintzeig, Benjamin. “Can the ontological models framework accommodate Bohmian mechanics?" Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 48A (2014): 59-67.
Courses Taught
Winter 2026
Autumn 2025
Spring 2025
Summer 2024
Spring 2024
Winter 2024
Autumn 2023
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
Winter 2022
Autumn 2021
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
Affiliations
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