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About
[Don A. Howard] (1949-) is an American philosopher. He specializes in the History of the Philosophy of Science, History and Foundations of Physics (in particular, Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity), and in the Ethics of Science and Technology. He has authored research articles and books on history and philosophy of modern physics, especially related to the work of Einstein and Bohr. He is a Fellow, American Physical Society(APS), 2007 and Past Chair of APS’s Forum on the History of Physics, and Chair of its Committee on International Freedom of Scientists.

Education
Howard obtained his B.Sc. in Physical Science (area of specialization in Physics) from Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University in 1971. Howard went on to obtain both an M.A. (1973) and a Ph.D. (1979) in philosophy from Boston University, where he specialized in philosophy of physics under the direction of Abner Shimony.

Career
After receiving his Ph.D., Howard taught philosophy of science at University of Kentucky in the school’s Department of Philosophy from 1978-1987. Concurrently, in 1985, Howard became Research Associate, Center for Einstein Studies, Boston University. In 1987 he transferred to University of Notre Dame, where he holds a permanent appointment as a Professor in the Department of Philosophy. He is a Fellow of the University of Notre Dame’s Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values, and served as its director(2011-2014). His video/audio lecture series, Albert Einstein: Physicist, Philosopher, Humanitarian, is available from The Great Courses and Professor Howard is a sought after commentator on issues related to science and ethics by networks like CNN, and The Wall Street Journal.

Selected Publications
Howard has served as Assistant Editor and Contributing Editor for The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein (Princeton University Press), and is Co-Editor of the Einstein Studies series (Springer).

In his most cited paper, "Einstein on Locality and Separability," Howard explains how in the different versions of the incompleteness argument, Einstein introduced a distinction between the concept of Separability and the concept of Locality. According to Howard, Separability is the thesis that spatially separated subsystems always have physical states, whereas Locality is the thesis that no faster than light propagations are possible.


 * Anche Einstein gioca a dadi. La lunga lotta con la meccanica quantistica. Vincenzo Fano and Isabella Tassani, eds. and trans. Rome: Carocci Editore, 2015.

Awards

 * National Science Foundation, Graduate Fellowship, 1971-74
 * Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1971-72