Editing David Albert (section)

==Education and career==

He received his bachelor's degree in physics from [[Columbia College of Columbia University|Columbia College]] (1976) and his [[PhD]] in theoretical physics from [[The Rockefeller University]] (1981) under Professor Nicola Khuri.<ref>Doctoral thesis: {{cite journal | last=Albert | first=David Z. | title=Behavior of the Borel resummations for the critical exponents of the n-vector model | journal=Physical Review B | publisher=American Physical Society (APS) | volume=25 | issue=7 | date=1982-04-01 | issn=0163-1829 | doi=10.1103/physrevb.25.4810 | pages=4810–4814}}</ref> Afterwards he worked with [[Yakir Aharonov]] of [[Tel Aviv University]].  He has spent most of his career in the [[philosophy]] department at [[Columbia University]], although he has also been a frequent visiting professor of philosophy at [[Rutgers University]].   In 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts & Sciences]].