Robert Batterman is Professor of Philosophy at The University of Pittsburgh. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of The Devil in the Details: Asymptotic Reasoning in Explanation, Reduction, and Emergence (Oxford, 2002). His work in philosophy of physics focuses primarily upon the area of condensed matter broadly construed.
There is much richness here, and an advanced graduate student or an established researcher would learn a great deal from reading the volume from cover to cover ... the volume is excellent. * James Owen Weatherall, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *