Philosopher of Physics, Lecturer at King's College London
Joined March 2014
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29 Jun 2020
I wrote a (hopefully!) accessible article explaining my philosophy of physics research: blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/why…
Thanks so much to @El_Dritch @quiteclare @forumphilosophy for inviting me to do this! For those interested, the less accessible version is here: academic.oup.com/bjps/articl…
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13 May 2024
Yuval Harari just published a piece on Zionism in the @washingtonpost. He argues:
"Nothing in this Zionist idea implies that Jews are superior to others, whether they are Greeks or Poles — or Palestinians." @harari_yuval
A short🧵.
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6 Feb 2024
This is a turning point in UK higher education. A financially viable department cut in order to pay for the expansion of subjects that get more high-fees international students. If this is allowed to happen, many many unis will follow. Please speak out!
2 Feb 2024
Sadly, @UniKent has announced plans to axe a number of smaller departments, including philosophy. We perform well on all measures, including student recruitment. But smaller subjects have less clout and are easiest to cut. Help us shout out our value to the uni! They need to hear
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7 Nov 2023
We're making a permanent appoinment in the history of early modern or modern philosophy
kcl.ac.uk/jobs/078085-lectur…
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25 Oct 2023
I've a new paper on how worlds emerge in Everettian quantum mechanics. I argue that decoherence is the mechanism that allows worlds to evolve independently from one another, so worlds emerge from underlying reality just as bouncy balls and gases emerge!
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24 Oct 2023
I wrote about how feeling compassion for Palestinians doesn't lessen our compassion for Israelis, and looking for hope in the Jewish-Arab partnerships offering a vision of an alternative, brighter, future.
Compassion is not a pizza with eight slices: blogs.timesofisrael.com/comp…
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19 Oct 2023
We're looking for an 18-month Lecturer in Philosophy and Medicine—application deadline 12 November kcl.ac.uk/jobs/076845-sowerb…
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9 Jul 2023
My brilliant student Lucy Mason giving a wonderful talk at Foundations of Physics 2023...
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23 Jun 2023
Second talk of the day, the first ever postdoc of the project (and now @kingsphilosophy lecturer) Alex Franklin presenting “Against Bridge Laws: Reduction in the Structuralist Mode” @PhilPhysAlex
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23 Jun 2023
And that’s him being very happy about what we put together, which counts 29 papers, 100 talks, 20 articles and many more things coming! @ttahko @tobytfriend @KimptonNye @PhilPhysAlex @seifert_vanessa @Dr_Will_Morgan @FranciBellazzi
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9 Nov 2022
The final talk from our workshop on the metaphysics of quantum theory from Alex Franklin @PhilPhysAlex - on the worlds of many-worlds quantum mechanics as emergent structure youtu.be/UeEmwZuNUNY
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2 Nov 2022
BBLOC Philosophy of Physics Seminar: Dr Sam Fletcher (Minnesota) – ‘The Representation and Determinable Structure of Quantum Properties’ Thursday 1st December 2022, 5pm, KCL Bush House (SE) 1.01 kingsphilosophy.com/2022/11/…
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3 Oct 2022
Alex Franklin @PhilPhysAlex wraps up today's workshop with a talk on how quantum worlds emerge from the quantum state, pushing back against objections to Everettian quantum theory which turn on its appeal to decoherence to secure determinate macroscopic outcomes
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28 Jul 2022
Post-lunch talk with @PhilPhysAlex of @MetaScienceEU convincing us that chances (the universe does not play 🎲) are not only reserved for fundamental probabilities in physics.
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28 Jul 2022
Alex Franklin @PhilPhysAlex in Lisbon today telling us how the universe plays dice—that is, about the nature of objective probabilities
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13 Jul 2022
One year political philosophy lectureship at King's - come and join us! jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/job/050…
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12 Jul 2022
Sunset on the train home after yesterday's Landauer's principle workshop in Bristol. A small summary below ⤵️
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9 Apr 2022
Here's another job! This time a 1 year job in logic/Phil science/ Phil maths. I'm the contact for this one so do get in touch if you have questions!jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/job/043…
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30 Mar 2022
This is amazing news! Congratulations Vanessa!
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7 Mar 2022
VIDEOS! Bumper drop on our YT channel today youtube.com/c/MetaScienceEU
Includes:
Sandra Mitchell
Eleanor Knox
Alex Franklin & Katie Robertson @PhilPhysAlex @philophyser
Quentin Ruyant @q_ruy
Roope Ryymin
Niccolò Negro @niccolo_negro
Gregorie Dupuis-Mc Donald
#metaphysics #PhilSci
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