Vice Rector Prof. Meir Hemmo

Meir Hemmo is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Haifa. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy of physics from the University of Cambridge. The thesis focused on open questions in the interpretation of quantum mechanics. Hemmo is co-author (with Orly Shenker) of the book The Road to Maxwell’s Demon: Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Mechanics (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He has published extensively on the conceptual foundations and interpretation of quantum mechanics, classical and quantum statistical mechanics, probability in physics, the arrow of time, physicalism and reduction in the special sciences and philosophy of mind.