Members

Thomas William Barrett is an Assistant Professor at UC Santa Barbara, with principal research interests in the philosophy of physics, logic, and general philosophy of science. He was formerly a Bersoff Faculty Fellow at New York University, and completed his PhD at Princeton University. His research has been primarily concerned with examining senses in which two physical theories might be "equivalent" (especially by the application of category-theoretic notions). He is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, a Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellow, and the recipient of the 2013 Clifton Memorial Prize. For more information visit his website.

Erik Curiel is an Assistant Professor at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, and a Research Fellow at the Black Hole Initiative in Harvard. He received his BA as a double major in physics and philosophy from Harvard and his PhD in philosophy from the University of Chicago. He has held academic positions at Stanford, the Center for Philosophy of Science at Pittsburgh, the London School Of Economics, the University of Western Ontario, and has spent time at Trinity College (Cambridge) as a Visiting Fellow and at the University of Florence as an Erasumus Fellow. He has worked and published on spacetime theory, quantum theory, cosmology, quantum gravity, and thermodynamics; his current research has turned to the nature of scientific knowledge and its representation. He is the recipient of a DFG Einzelförderung Grant (as sole PI) for his research project on black-hole thermodynamics. He is an invited member of the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi). For more information visit his website.

Neil Dewar is an Assistant Professor at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP). Before joining the MCMP, he completed a BPhil and DPhil at the University of Oxford, including a year spent at Princeton on a Procter Fellowship. His research concerns issues of symmetry and equivalence in physics, the application of logic to philosophy of science, and the metaphysics of physics. He is the recipient of the 2013 Gilbert Ryle Prize, the 2013 Hanneke Janssen Memorial Prize, and the 2016 Clifton Memorial Prize. For more information visit his website.

John Dougherty is a postdoctoral fellow at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP). He received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego, and his undergraduate degrees from the University of Chicago. During his doctoral studies he was a predoctoral fellow with the Beyond Spacetime project. His research interests are in the philosophy of physics, mathematics, and logic. His current research deals with the concept of equivalence in mathematical and and physical theories, especially in higher category and quantum field theories. For more information visit his website.

Benjamin Eva is an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz. He received an MA and PhD in philosophy from the University of Bristol, and spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the MCMP before going to Konstanz. He has research interests across a broad spectrum of areas, including the application of category theory to foundations of physics and philosophy of science; confirmation and evidence in science; and the formal analysis of causation. For more information visit his website.

Stephan Hartmann is Professor of Philosophy of Science in the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion at LMU Munich, Alexander von Humboldt Professor, and Co-Director of the MCMP. His primary research and teaching areas are philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, formal epistemology, and social epistemology. He published numerous articles and the book Bayesian Epistemology (with Luc Bovens) that appeared in 2003 with Oxford University Press. His current research interests include the philosophy and psychology of reasoning and argumentation, the philosophy of physics (esp. the philosophy of open quantum systems and (imprecise) probabilities in quantum mechanics) and formal social epistemology (esp. models of deliberation and norm emergence). His book Bayesian Philosophy of Science (with Jan Sprenger) will appear in 2019 with Oxford University Press. For more information visit his website.

Laurenz Hudetz is an Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics. He received his PhD from the University of Salzburg, where he previously studied mathematics, psychology and philosophy. He works at the intersection between philosophy of science and logic, with a focus on applying category theory and higher-order logic to understanding reduction and equivalence relations. He is the winner of the 2016 John Worrall Essay Prize, and the recipient of a Marietta Blau grant from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. For more information visit his website.

Patricia Palacios is a tenure-track faculty member of the University of Salzburg. She was previously a doctoral fellow at the MCMP and an Ernst Mach Fellow at the University of Salzburg; before joining the MCMP, she completed an MA at the University of Santiago, Chile, and an MSc at the London School of Economics. During her doctoral studies, she was an invited visiting scholar at the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Minnesota. Her research concerns issues of inter-theoretic relations; reduction and emergence in physics; the application of statistical mechanical methods to non-physical sciences; and the foundations of complex systems. For more information visit her website.

Joshua Rosaler is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology at RWTH Aachen University, working as part of the DFG-funded collaboration, "The Epistemology of the LHC". His current work focuses on problems of naturalness in contemporary particle physics as well as issues concerning the identification of quantum state branches in the consistent histories framework of quantum theory; his past research has studied the requirements for reduction between theories in physics, with particular emphasis on quantum-classical relations. He was recently awarded a Lise Meitner Research Grant from the FWF for his project "Reduction in Physics: A Local, Empirical, Model-Based Approach", in collaboration with Charlotte Werndl at the University of Salzburg. He received his DPhil at the University of Oxford, where he was a Clarendon scholar, his MA from Columbia University, and his undergraduate degree from Harvard University. For more information visit his website.

Sarita Rosenstock is a PhD candidate in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at UC Irvine. Her research interests include the category-theoretic analysis of theories (especially classical gauge theories), the foundations of field theories, and game theory, with several publications in top philosophy and physics journals. She is the recipient of a Social Science Merit Fellowship, and is the Managing Editor for Philosophy of Science. For more information visit her website.