Norman Swartz (born 1939) is an American philosopher and professor emeritus (retired 1998) of philosophy, Simon Fraser University. He is the author or co-author of multiple books and multiple articles on the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy .
He attended Burnaby North Secondary School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in physics from Harvard College in 1961, an Master of Arts in history and philosophy of science from Indiana University Bloomington in 1965 and a Ph.D. in history of philosophy of science in 1971 also from Indiana University. [1] He uses the term physical law to mean the laws of nature as they truly are and not as they are inferred and described in the practice of science. [2]
Following is an incomplete list of publications.