Area of Specialisation > Philosophy of Physics

Giovanni Valente (Milan): 'On the Quantum Boltzmann Equation: What is the source, if any, of irreversibility?’

Daniel Grimmer | Oxford | A Discrete Analog for General Covariance

Natasha Oughton | Oxford | The role of the Shannon information in global determinism

Maria Violaris | Oxford | Irreversibility and quantum erasure: what happens when traditional thermodynamics breaks down?

Kiki Timmermans | Oxford | Emergence without Reduction: What can we learn from the case of Superconductivity and the Renormalization Group?

Aviram Rosochotsky | Tel Aviv | Scale Transformations in Boscovich’s Natural Philosophy

Catherine Ashworth | Oxford | Understanding Objective and Subjective Probability in Everettian Quantum Mechanics

Kabir Bakshi | Oxford | Better Than The Better Best?

Nicholas Ormrod | Oxford

Imogen Rivers | Oxford | Physicists v. Philosophers? Symmetries and the Hole Argument

Jonathan Fay | Bristol | Absolute Space Reconsidered: Two Conventions for Spacetime Geometry in Gravity Theories

Tim Riedel | Oxford | Against the Minimal Impact Approach to Everettian Quantum Mechanics

Johannes Fankhauser | Oxford

Lucy James | Bristol | Partial Observables and Ontology

Caspar Jacobs | Oxford | Earman’s Symmetry Principles for Internal Symmetries

Alexandre Eire | Oxford | A Nomological Geometrical Approach to Spacetime

Lia Den Daas | Oxford | How symmetries can explain conservation laws

Cozette Shen | 'On the philosophical potentials of non-cosmological astronomy'

Natasha Oughton | Oxford | The significance of the Information Causality principle in singling out quantum correlations

Catherine Ashworth | 'Can there be localised gauge potential properties?'

Johannes Fankhauser | St Edmund Hall | ‘How we ought (not) to understand weak measurements of Bohmian velocities’

Aviram Rosochotsky | Exeter College | 'The Boyer-Rohrlich Controversy and the Dynamical Interpretation of Special Relativity'

Nick Ormrod | 'Quantum causal structures and the quantum switch'

Kiril Maltsev | St Catherine's College | 'On the (possible) link between entropy and information'

Marta Bielinska | Oxford | Two lines of the discussion on the nature of spacetime

Patrick Duerr | Oriel College | ‘Clarifying Potential Misconceptions in the Foundations of Teleparallel Gravity: GR without the Equivalence Principle and Geometrisation?’

Bryan Cheng | 'The Hole Argument and Putnam's Paradox'

James Wills | LSE | 'Gibbs’ solution of Gibbs’ paradox'

Seth Grable | Oxford | The Hole Argument in Regards to the Equivalence Principle

Samuel Fletcher | 'The Many Principles in the Theory of General Relativity'

Johannes Fankhauser | 'Taming the delayed choice quantum eraser'

Patrick Duerr | Oriel | A Minimally Bohmian Stochastic Mechanics

Natasha Oughton | Somerville College | ‘Quantum, In Principle’

Caspar Jacobs| 'Invariances, Symmetries and Quantity-Value Essentialism’

Natasha Oughton | Starting from scratch: Why reconstruct quantum theory?

Kiril Maltsev | St Catherine's College | ‘On interpretations of chance and probability’

Natasha Oughton | 'Quantum, In Principle'

Alicia Fallows | Oxford | Ontological emergence: does reductionism have to fail?

Marta Bielińska | Leibniz and Kant on the nature of space. Forgotten context of 'Von dem ersten Grunde des Unterschiedes der Gegenden im Raume'

Clara Bradley | Bristol | ‘The non-equivalence of Einstein and Lorentz’

Diana Taschetto | 'The Mathematical and Conceptual Origins of the Measurement Problem'

Bryan Cheng: 'Empirically Grounding Representation'

Ray Pederson: 'For one dendritic world'

Will Wolf: 'Underdetermination in dark energy and inflationary cosmology.'

Maria Avramidou: 'The problem of chaos in philosophy of science'

Frank Cudek: 'Localising singular structure of spacetime'

Marta Bielinska: Details to follow.

Paolo Faglia: Details to follow.

Max Heitmann: 'Does Neo-Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics Undermine our Knowledge of the Low-Entropy Past?'

Bryan Cheng: 'Locality and Separability in Quantum Mechanics'

Francisco Pipa (University of Kansas): 'Beyond relationalism in quantum theory: A new indeterminacy-based approach to quantum theory'

Paolo Faglia: 'Non-separability, common ground and Local Causality'

Lorenzo Lorenzetti (University of Bristol): 'Two forms of functional reductionism in physics'

Tom de Saegher | Western Ontario | 'On Equivalent Modificatory Solutions to the Measurement Problem'

Catherine Ashworth: 'Metaphysics of Derivative Spacetime in Quantum Gravity'

Caspar Jacobs | Oxford | Comparitivist Theories or Conspiracy Theories?

Caspar Jacobs | Oxford | What is the Significance of Direct Empirical Significance?

Anicet Tibau Vidal | Oxford | Fermions Are Local-Realistic

Sam Kuypers | Oxford | Exorcising Quantum Theory’s Spooky Action

Samuel Kuyper | Oxford | Everettian relative states in the Heisenberg picture

Dominik Ehrenfels | Oxford | Empirical Significance and Partial Interpretation

Patrick Duerr | Oxford | The General-Relativistic Case for Super-Substantivalism

Johannes Fankhauser | Oxford | Is quantum mechanics empirically complete?

Lia den Daas | Bristol | Discussing ‘Theoretical Mathematics’ by Jaffe and Quinn

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Johannes Fankhauser | Oxford | The empirical completeness problem in quantum mechanics

Diego Cimadom | Oxford | The Problem of Time Asymmetry and the Past Hypothesis

Marta Bielińska | Oxford | Testing the orientability of spacetime

Lydia Drabkin-Reiter | Oxford | Pessimistic inductions and the success-truth link

Jonathan Fay | Bristol | Towards a Machian theory of gravity

Eleanor March: 'Is the Deutsch-Wallace theorem redundant?'

Laurenz Hudetz | LSE | 'The conceptual-schemas account of interpretation'

Anders Sandberg | Oxford | Physical eschatology: how much can we say about the far future of the universe, and how much does it matter?

Martin LeSourd | Harvard | Penrose crosses the street and what's happened since

Tushar Menon | Cambridge | Dynamical substantivalism

Patricia Palacios | University of Salzburg | Re-defining equilibrium for long-range interacting systems

Kian Salimkhani | Cologne | The Dynamical Approach to Spin-2 Gravity

Sebastián Murgueitio-Ramirez | Oxford | On Symmetries, Models and Representation

Caspar Jacobs (Oxford): 'The Model is Not the Territory: On Quality and Isomorphism'

David Wallace (Pittsburgh): 'Thermodynamics with and without reversibility'

David Wallace (University of Pittsburgh): ''The local quantum vacuum as the Past Hypothesis' 

Olivier Darrigol | Paris | 'Ludwig Boltzmann: Atoms, mechanics, and probability'

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Caspar Jacobs | Oxford | Comparativist Theories and Conspiracy Theories: the no miracles argument against comparativism

Ard Louis | Oxford | 'An algorithmic version of Occam's razor in machine learning and biological evolution'

Sebastian de Haro (Amsterdam): 'Dualities and quasi-dualities: on solitons and phases of quantum field theories'

Simon Saunders (Oxford): 'Finite frequentism explains quantum probability’

Patrick Dürr | Oxford | 'Philosophy of the Dead: Nordström Gravity'

Mauro Dorato | University of Rome 3 | Overcoming dynamical explanations with structural explanations

Eddie Chen | UCSD | The Wentaculus: Density Matrix Realism Meets the Arrow of Time

Claudio Calosi | Geneva | Wavefunction Monism

Kobi Kremnitzer (Mathematical Institute, Oxford): 'Scientific theories of consciousness, the closure of the (current) physical, and quantum collapse'

Caspar Jacobs (Leiden): 'Stating Maths-First Realism, or: How to Say Things with Models’

Francesca Chadha-Day | Cambridge | Dark Matter: Understanding the gravity of the situation

Jeremy Steeger | Washington | One World Is (Probably) Just as Good as Many

Kasia Rejzner | York | Symmetries, anomalies and quantum Noether theorem

Lu Chen (Koç University): 'A discrete case for dynamicism'

Nicholas Teh (Notre Dame): 'Understanding the Geroch–Jang argument'

Peter Morgan (Yale University): 'A Dataset & Signal Analysis Interpretation of Quantum Field Theory’

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Nora Boyd | Siena College, NY | Is Laboratory Astrophysics Astrophysics?

Julian Barbour | Oxford | 'Complexity as Time'

Johannes Fankhauser (Oxford/Innsbruck): 'Quantum Uncertainty and Empirical Completeness'

Natasha Oughton (National Quantum Computing Centre): 'Why quantum theory? Understanding and explanation through reconstruction'

Yang-Hui He | City, London | 'Exceptional and Sporadic'

Guy Hetzroni | Israel | Symmetry Arguments, Methodological Equivalence and Relational Quantities

Valeriya Chasova | Salzburg / Strasbourg / Louvain-la-Neuve | Local symmetries have direct empirical status

Porter Williams | Southern California | Identifying Causal Directions in Quantum Theories via Entanglement

Christian Wüthrich (University of Geneva): 'Laws Beyond Spacetime'

Sabine Hossenfelder (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy): 'Superdeterminism – The Forgotten Solution'

Jeremy Butterfield | Cambridge | 'On realism and functionalism about space and time'

Alyssa Ney | UC Davis | Three Arguments for Wave Function Realism

Tomasz Bigaj | Warsaw | 'Entanglement and discernibility of identical particles'

Renate Loll (Radbound University, Nijmegen): 'Questions on Quantum Gravity'

Casey McCoy | Stockholm | 'Why is h-bar a universal constant?' 

John Dougherty | Munich | Why ghosts are real and “surplus structure” isn’t

David Wallace | Pittsburgh | Quantum Gravity at Low Energies; or: Yes, Virginia, there is a cosmological constant problem

Samuel Fletcher | Minnesota | Relativistic Spacetime: Dependence and Ontology

James Read (Philosophy, Oxford): 'An invitation to constructive axiomatics'

Adam Caulton (Oxford): 'Reduction and Equivalence: Some mild suggestions'

Jamee Elder | Philosophy, University of Notre Dame/University of Bonn | The epistemology of LIGO

Sarita Rosenstock | Australian National University | A Category Theoretic Framework for Physical Representation

David Wallace | Pittsburgh | The sky is blue, and other reasons physics needs the Everett interpretation

Paul Hoyningen-Huene  (University of Hannover): 'How do robust abstract economic models explain?'

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Gordon Belot | Michigan | The Mach—Einstein Principle of 1917—1918

Jim Al Khalili | Surrey | 'Life on the Edge: the dawn of quantum biology'

Paul Skokowski (Stanford): 'Superpositions and beliefs about superpositions'

Jingyi Wu (LSE): 'Between a Stone and a Hausdorff Space’

Joanna Luc | Cambridge | 'Generalised manifolds as basic objects of General Relativity'

Brian Pitts | Cambridge | Constraints, Gauge, Change and Observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity

John Norton | Pittsburgh | How to make possibility safe for empiricists

James Read | Oxford | Curvature coupling, electromagnetic wave propagation, and the consistency of the geometrical optics limit

Marco Giovanelli (Philosophy, Turin): 'Special Relativity as a Theory of Principles. On Einstein' Distinction between Constructive and Principle Theories'

Tushar Menon | Oxford | 'Rotating spacetimes and the relativistic null hypothesis'

Adam Caulton | Philosophy, Oxford | Is a particle an irreducible representation of the Poincaré group?

Trevor Teitel | Toronto | How to be a Spacetime Substantivalist

Milena Ivanova | Cambridge | What is a Beautiful Experiment?

Ted Jacobson (University of Maryland and University of Cambridge): 'Diffeomorphism invariance and the black hole information paradox'

Tim Palmer (Oxford) and Chris Timpson (Oxford): ‘Superdeterminism and Non-Conspiracy Revisited: A Debate’

Henrique Gomes | Perimeter and Cambridge | 'Gauge, boundaries, and the connection form'

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Mike Miller | Toronto | Cluster decomposition and entanglement

Nick Huggett | Illinois | 'Quantum gravity in a laboratory'

Fedele Lizzi (Naples): 'Quantum Observers for Quantum Spacetime'

Daniel Grimmer (Oxford): 'In Search of New Spacetimes: The ISE Method of Topological Redescription' 

Katie Robertson | Birmingham | 'Reducing the second law of thermodynamics: the demons and difficulties'

Simon Saunders | Oxford | Particle trajectories, indistinguishable particles, and the discovery of the photon

Wayne Myrvold | UWT | Subjectivists about probability should be realists about quantum states

Yemima Ben-Menahem (Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem): 'Lawlessness'

Nick Ormrod (Oxford, Computer Science): 'Quantum Influences and Event Relativity'

Jonathan Barrett | Oxford | 'Quantum causal models'

Radin Dardashti | Philosophy, University of Wuppertal | Understanding Problems in Physics

Nicolas Menicucci | RMIT | Sonic Relativity and the Sound Postulate

Tomoko Kitagawa | Oxford/Science Museum | Moscow, Oxford, or Princeton: Emmy Noether’s Move from Göttingen (1933)

Patrick M. Duerr (Hebrew University, Jerusalem & University of Oxford): 'Conventionalism – a Sophisticated Philosophy for our (Space)Times'

Jonathan Halliwell (Imperial): 'Aspects of Leggett-Garg Tests for Macrorealism'

Lucy Mason (Royal Holloway University of London): ‘Measurement, Metrology, and Perspectives on the Quantum State’

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Jacob Barandes | Harvard | Why We Shouldn't Believe in Hilbert Spaces Anymore, and the Case for Platonic Quantum Theory

Jonathan Halliwell | Imperial | 'Leggett-Garg tests for macrorealism — generalized inequalities, tests for continuous variables, non-invasive protocols'

Doreen Fraser (Waterloo): 'Philosophical implications of measurement in QFT'

Daniel Grimmer (Oxford): 'In Search of New Spacetimes: Topological Redescription via the ISE Method’

Alex Franklin | KCL | 'On the Effectiveness of Effective Field Theories'

Nick Huggett | Chicago Circle | Missing the point in (noncommutative) field theory

Marina Cortês (Institute for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, Lisbon): 'Biocosmology: towards the birth of a new physics field'

James Nguyen | IOP/UCL | 'Interpreting Models: A Suggestion and its Payoffs'

Martin Lipman | Leiden | Realism About Relative Facts and Special Relativity

Emily Qureshi-Hurst (Oxford): The Many Worries of Many Worlds: Exploring Some Possible Implications of Everettian Quantum Mechanics

Henrique Gomes (University of Oxford): 'The Hole Argument: A Drama in Five Acts'

Neil Dewar (Cambridge): 'The Hole Argument and Mathematical Practice'

Harvey Brown | Oxford | 'Aspects of probabilistic reasoning in physics'

David Albert | Columbia | How to Teach Quantum Mechanics

Fay Dowker | Imperial | 'Recovering General Relativity from a Planck scale discrete theory of quantum gravity'

Dennis Lehmkuhl (Bonn): 'Einstein's Six Paths to the Metric Tensor --- and why he interpreted it differently than you do'

Karen Crowther | Geneva | 'As Below, So Before: Synchronic and Diachronic Conceptions of Emergence in Quantum Gravity'

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Jenann Ismael | Columbia | Totality, Self-reference and Physics

Katherine Brading | Duke | Du Châtelet, Euler, d’Alembert: constructive and principle approaches to philosophical mechanics

Niels Linnemann (University of Geneva): 'General relativity as a classical spin-2 theory?'

James Read (Oxford): 'The Non-Relativistic Geometric Trinity of Gravity'

Karim Thébault | Philosophy, Bristol | Time and Background Independence

Baptiste Le Bihan | Geneva | What Does the World Look Like According to Superdeterminism?

Neil Dewar | Cambridge | Symmetries, Quiddities, and Higher-Order Structure - CANCELLED

Bryan Roberts (LSE): 'How black holes are really hot'

Richard Healey (University of Arizona): ‘How to be a single-world quantum relativist’

Martin Lesourd | Oxford | ‘The epistemic constraints that observers face in general relativistic spacetimes’

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Tim Maudlin | NYU | The PBR Theorem, Quantum State Realism, and Statistical Independence

Oliver Pooley | Oxford | 'Models of the open future and relativistic physics'

Justin Holder: 'Poincaré’s Radical Ontology'

Barry Loewer | Rutgers | The package deal account of fundamental laws

Katie Robertson | Birmingham | On the status of thermodynamics: the village witch’s trial.

David Wallace | USC | 'Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Finite Quantum Systems: a decoherent-histories approach'

Simon Saunders | Oxford | 'Understanding Particle Indistinguishability'