Floris Eskens

About Me

I'm a PhD candidate at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo. My main areas of specialisation are philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of time. My research also engages with topics in metaphysics, logic, and philosophy of mathematics. My supervisor is Karen Crowther and my co-supervisor is Sam Baron.

I'm mainly working on the formalisation of intertheoretic relationships in the categorical view of theories, spacetime emergence in quantum gravity, and on the logic and metaphysics of the laws of nature. My PhD research aims at expanding our understanding of intertheoretical relationships in the categorical view of theories and contributing to its establishment as a theory of scientific theories. The goal is then to use this formal theory of scientific theories to make progress on problems in philosophy of physics regarding spacetime emergence and the laws-as-constraints view of laws of nature. 

I'm also working on and interested in scientific explanation, realism/antirealism, space, time, causation, philosophy of quantum gravity, philosophy of dualities and symmetries, and functionalism and structuralism in philosophy of physics and philosophy of mathematics.  

My sister Romy Eskens and her partner Jonas Haeg are philosophers too, as is my uncle Erno Eskens.