Philosopher of physics, @LeverhulmeTrust Early Career fellow and member of @framephys at the University of Birmingham, soon to be at the University of Stirling
Joined October 2019
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Katie Robertson retweeted
29 Mar 2024
“The bottom of the reality is not material objects – it’s bits of information,” argues Paul Davies in a debate with @RupertSheldrake and Katie Robertson @philophyser on the fundamental nature of reality. iai.tv/video/what-the-world-…
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Katie Robertson retweeted
6 Feb 2024
Philosophers of physics!! (Especially grad students and postdocs!) Join us in London for ILMPS 2024. June 10-11th at Kings College, followed by a workshop on Probabilistic and Statistical Methods in Physics.
For CFA and other info, see: ilmpsnetwork.wordpress.com/i…
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Katie Robertson retweeted
23 Jan 2024
So happy to see my awesome colleague Maja Spener’s book finally in print. I’ve read it and it’s so cool.
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Join us at the public lecture by Professor Mark Rowlands entitled "World on Fire: Climate, Extinction, Pandemic" held on the 31st of January at 6pm in C.LTA5 at the University of Stirling.
Register here: forms.office.com/e/Su0Q2Zy6h…
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Katie Robertson retweeted
2 Oct 2023
*Tonight* we're excited host Scott Sturgeon's Presidential Address at the Aristotelian Society! His talk is titled: When Epistemic Models Misfire: Lessons for Everyday Rationality.
Free and open to all. 6pm, Senate House, Woburn Suite.
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Katie Robertson retweeted
9 Jul 2023
My brilliant student Lucy Mason giving a wonderful talk at Foundations of Physics 2023...
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Not one but two PostDoc positions at Utrecht University @UUBeta, on the history and philosophy of physics or science, within Guido Bacciagaluppi's ERC project "Niels Bohr for the 21st century".
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We congratulate our associate professor Guido Bacciagaluppi for earning an ERC grant to conduct research on the ideas of Niels Bohr, with the aim of clearing misunderstandings created by the overstudy of some of Bohr's works at the expense of others. uu.nl/en/news/erc-advanced-g…
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30 May 2023
Had a blast hosting events at @HTLGIFestival over the last couple of days..discussions ranging from wormholes, how language represents reality, whether science is inherently anthropocentric to 'the trouble with string theory'
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30 May 2023
Not pictured: trying not to gawp as Billy Bragg sat down opposite me in the green room
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From the latest issue:
Katie Robertson (@philophyser), 'In Search of the Holy Grail: How to Reduce the Second Law of Thermodynamics'
Read here:
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Katie Robertson retweeted
15 May 2023
Join our friends at @FraMEPhys at their final event if you can - great line-up!
11 May 2023
Our final project conference - on Metaphysical Explanation in Physics - will take place next week, 15-17 May at the MAC in Birmingham. Register here: framephys.org/metaphysical-e…
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Katie Robertson retweeted
13 Dec 2022
Foundations of Physics Conference taking place in Bristol next summer, just after the BSPS conference!
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Katie Robertson retweeted
14 Nov 2022
This week we'll be sharing talks from our September workshop on the metaphysics of black holes. First: Baptiste Le Bihan @BaptisteLeBihan framing the day's discussions with his Prolegomena to a Metaphysics of Black Holes youtu.be/sBZ0ycOcWSw
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13 Nov 2022
The final talk in the levels symposium at #psa2022: Joyce Havstad argues that the problem is with the calcification of certain levels -such as the pyramid of life- not the activity of levelling!
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13 Nov 2022
Carl Craver at #Psa2022 argues that the examples used by global level eliminativists, e.g. causal relations across scales, should instead motivate levels *pluralism*
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13 Nov 2022
Next in the levels symposium at #psa2022 Petri Ylikoski discusses how the macro-micro distinction in social science means many different things in different contexts...and warns that importing analogies from the philosophy of mind is a bad move
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13 Nov 2022
The final day of #Psa2022 starts with a lovely talk by @APotochnik on what's to be gained by letting go of levels...whilst there are some exceptions (e.g. levels of selection), in general we are better off focusing on particularly features eg. temporal scale ☀️
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11 Nov 2022
I'm very happy to see this! 🥳😊👏
11 Nov 2022
Congratulations to @niranzri on her first publication! - and our latest @FraMEPhys project output - now online at Synthese. Noe argues that we can understand scientific use of counterfactuals, including counterpossibles and model-based reasoning, in terms of make-believe.
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