William Simpson

Research Associate, University of Cambridge

William Simpson is a Junior Research Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge.

He completed a PhD in Philosophy and an MPhil in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in Physics and an MPhys in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics at the University of St Andrews. Prior to his studies in philosophy at Cambridge, he was a visiting scientist and postdoctoral research fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

Link: https://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/people/william-simpson

Research Interests

Physics and philosophy of physics
Metaphysics and philosophy of science
Philosophy of mind
Philosophy of religion and analytic theology

Affiliations

Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
Honorary Research Fellow, Logos Institute, University of St Andrews,
Research Associate, Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion,
University of Oxford

Publications

(Edited volumes)

"Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science", co-edited with
R.C Koons and N. J. Teh, Routledge, 2017.

Forces of the Quantum Vacuum: an introduction to Casimir Physics, W.M.R.
Simpson, U. Leonhardt, Eds, World Scientific Publishing, 2015.

(Monographs)

Surprises in Theoretical Casimir Physics, W.M.R. Simpson, Springer
(2014).

(Select papers in philosophy)

"What's the matter with Super-Humeanism?", W.M.R. Simpson, British
Journal for the Philosophy of Science, (accepted; forthcoming in 2019).

"Half-baked Humeanism", in Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary
Science, Eds. W.M.R. Simpson, R.C. Koons, N. J. Teh, Routledge, 2017.

"Ontological aspects of the Casimir Effect", Studies in Hist. and
Philos. of Modern Physics, 2014

(Select papers in physics)

"Exact solution for the Casimir stress in a spherically symmetric
medium", Leonhardt, U., Simpson, W. M. R., Phys. Rev. D, 2011.

"Divergence of the Casimir stress in inhomogeneous media", Simpson,
W.M.R, Horsley, S.A.R, Leonhardt, U., Phys. Rev. A, 2013.

"Casimir forces at the cutting edge", Simpson, W.M.R., Leonhardt, U.,
Decca, R., Buhmann, S.Y., in Forces of the Quantum Vacuum: an
introduction to Casimir Physics. World Scientific, 2015.

(Papers in theology)

"Knowing nature", in Knowing Creation, Eds. A. B. Torrance, T. H.
McCall, Zondervan, 2017.

"The Significance of Andrew Perriman's 'Faith, Health and Prosperity' in
the Word of Faith Debate" Simpson, W.M.R, in the Journal of Pentecostal
Theology, Vol 16(1) 64-96.