Robert E French

Robert E. French
Born	(1952-12-00)December 0, 1952 Template:Error Template:Error
Residence	Troy, MI, United States
Nationality	USA
Known for	Light, Entanglement, Emission Theory

Robert E French was born in Wisconsin in 1952 and grew up in the state of Maine. He received an AB in philosophy from Dartmouth College in 1974 and a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1982 from Boston University where his thesis advisors were Abner Shimony and Judson Webb. He has taught philosophy at a number of schools in the Detroit area including Wayne State University, the University of Windsor, Central Michigan University and various community colleges. He has also been a research associate working on parametric down conversion in the laboratory of Ted Goodson at the University of Michigan. He has a wide range of interests but is currently working primarily on developing a physically realist interpretation of quantum mechanics, in particular as it relates to optics. He is married to Robin Siegel.

Abstracts

• 2009 - "Wave Particle Unity and a Physically Realist Interpretation of Light" (Read in full)

Books

• 2016 - "A Model of the Physical World: A Speculative Essay in Natural Philosophy" — a realist model of the physical world developing a physically realist interpretation of quantum mechanics and an emission theory of light.

Media

• 2010 - [http://www.worldsci.org/videos/dimdim/event_298_dimdim.flv Polarization Entanglement

] (Video Lecture)

YouTube Videos

Talks presented in the Cosmology discussion sessions on Roger J Anderton's YouTube channel (@rogeranderton418):

• The Nature of Observations (12 July 2026)
• Back to Descartes's Theory of Vortices (1 February 2026)
• Models of Atomic Physics (12 October 2025)
• Method (17 August 2025)
• Light and Entanglement (7 July 2025)
• A Thin Shell Model of the Electric Field