Speakers

Jonathan Bain

(NYU)

I am a professor of philosophy of science in the Department of Technology, Culture and Society in NYU's Tandon School of Engineering, with an affiliation in NYU's Department of Philosophy. I received my PhD from the History and Philosophy of Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh. My research interests include foundations of physics, philosophy of spacetime, scientific realism, and philosophy of quantum field theory.

More specifically, I'm interested in the ontological and metaphysical commitments of theories in contemporary physics; in other words, in how such theories can be interpreted. I'm also interested in the epistemological status of the claims such theories make about the physical world. These interests span the subject areas of philosophy of spacetime and philosophy of quantum theory, as well as the emerging discussion on philosophy of quantum gravity, and link up with issues in the debate over scientific realism.

Johanna Erdmenger

(University of Würzburg)

I am interested in string theory and quantum field theory. In particular, I focus on the gauge theory/string theory correspondence and applications to particle physics, condensed matter physics and cosmology, as well as on conformal symmetry, renormalization, supergravity, and statistical mechanics. Together with my group we look at new relations between string theory and elementary particle physics and also condensed matter physics, in view of bringing string theory closer to experimental tests. A particularly interesting avenue in this direction are gauge/gravity dualities in generalization of the AdS/CFT correspondence, which allow to map strong-coupling problems in quantum field theory to weakly coupled problems in classical gravity. We also study formal aspects of the AdS/CFT correspondence, for instance the duality between O(N) vector models and higher spin theories in AdS (Anti-de Sitter) space.

Sebastian De Haro

(UvA)

My areas of specialisation are the philosophy of science and the philosophy and history of physics. I am particularly interested in how classical referential semantics can be brought to bear on various questions in philosophy of science. I am interested in the debates about scientific realism, emergence, in questions of empirical under-determination, empirical equivalence, theoretical equivalence, scientific understanding, heuristics, dualities in physics, the relation between science and philosophy, and the philosophy of string theory

Jeremy Butterfield

(University of Cambridge)

Jeremy Butterfield is a philosopher of physics. He got his BA and PhD in the Philosophy Faculty, University of Cambridge, UK; and got his first appointment there. From 1998 to 2006, he was at All Souls College, Oxford. Since 2006, he has been a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, UK. His research interests are the philosophical aspects of quantum theory, relativity theory and classical mechanics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Baptiste Le Bihan

(University of Geneva)

I’m a philosopher. Most of my research interests are in theoretical philosophy (metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of physics), mainly on time and space, modality, mereology and material objects but I also occasionally branch out in philosophy of mind and comparative philosophy. I hold a PhD from the University of Rennes and a habilitation from the University of Bern. I’m the PI of a Swiss NSF Ambizione project at the University of Geneva on the metaphysics of quantum gravity.

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