I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The American University in Cairo. Before I was the Howard E. and Susanne C. Jessen Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy of Physics at Caltech.
My research interests are in philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology. I also like to teach history of physics and history of philosophy, in particular Ancient Greek Philosophy.
My article When Fields Are Not Degrees of Freedom (co-authored with Vera Hartenstein) has received an Honourable Mention in the 2021 Popper Prize Competition as Top 3 of the best papers published in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science…
I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The American University in Cairo. Before I was the Howard E. and Susanne C. Jessen Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy of Physics at Caltech.
My research interests are in philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology. I also like to teach history of physics and history of philosophy, in particular Ancient Greek Philosophy.
My article When Fields Are Not Degrees of Freedom (co-authored with Vera Hartenstein) has received an Honourable Mention in the 2021 Popper Prize Competition as Top 3 of the best papers published in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science in 2021.
My research in the philosophy of classical electrodynamics is presented to a general audience in the Aeon article What's everything made of? written by Charles T. Sebens. (reprinted in American Scientist and quoted in Nature Briefing)
My preferred interpretation of the wave-function (as developed in the article The Wave-Function as a Multi-Field) is discussed in section 2.7 of Alyssa Ney's new book The World in the Wave Function (Oxford University Press, 2021).
