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Craig Callender is a professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. His main areas of research are philosophy of science, philosophy of physics and metaphysics.

Craig Callender is a professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. His main areas of research are philosophy of science, philosophy of physics and metaphysics.

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