Michael David Silberstein is full professor of Philosophy at Elizabethtown College and permanent adjunct in the philosophy department at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he is also a faculty member in the Foundations of Physics Program and a Fellow on the Committee for Philosophy and the Sciences.
He is an NEH Fellow. His primary research interests are foundations of physics and foundations of cognitive science, respectively. He is also interested in how these branches of philosophy and science bear on more general questions of reduction, emergence and explanation.
He also loves film and writing about film whenever possible and hopes someday to finish his book on film and interpretation