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17Correction to: Editorial: symmetries and asymmetries in physicsSynthese 199 (3): 11179-11180. 2021.
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On the Empirical Consequences of the AdS/CFT DualityIn Nick Huggett, Keizo Matsubara & Christian Wüthrich (eds.), Beyond Spacetime: The Foundations of Quantum Gravity, Cambridge University Press.. pp. 284-303. 2020.
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112Confirmation via Analogue Simulation: What Dumb Holes Could Tell Us about GravityBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 68 (1). 2017.In this article we argue for the existence of ‘analogue simulation’ as a novel form of scientific inference with the potential to be confirmatory. This notion is distinct from the modes of analogical reasoning detailed in the literature, and draws inspiration from fluid dynamical ‘dumb hole’ analogues to gravitational black holes. For that case, which is considered in detail, we defend the claim that the phenomena of gravitational Hawking radiation could be confirmed in the case that its counter…Read more
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37No-go theorems: What are they good for?Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 86 (C): 47-55. 2021.
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292Assessing Scientific Theories: The Bayesian ApproachIn Dawid Richard, Dardashti Radin & Thebault Karim (eds.), Epistemology of Fundamental Physics: Why Trust a Theory?, Cambridge University Press. 2019.Scientific theories are used for a variety of purposes. For example, physical theories such as classical mechanics and electrodynamics have important applications in engineering and technology, and we trust that this results in useful machines, stable bridges, and the like. Similarly, theories such as quantum mechanics and relativity theory have many applications as well. Beyond that, these theories provide us with an understanding of the world and address fundamental questions about space,…Read more
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202Hawking radiation and analogue experiments: A Bayesian analysisStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 67 1-11. 2019.We present a Bayesian analysis of the epistemology of analogue experiments with particular reference to Hawking radiation. Provided such experiments can be externally validated via universality arguments, we prove that they are confirmatory in Bayesian terms. We then provide a formal model for the scaling behaviour of the confirmation measure for multiple distinct realisations of the analogue system and isolate a generic saturation feature. Finally, we demonstrate that different potential analog…Read more
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51Symmetry BreakingIn Eleanor Knox & Alastair Wilson (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics, Routledge. 2022.A brief introduction to the physics and philosophy of symmetry breaking.
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40We provide an analysis of the empirical consequences of the AdS/CFT duality with reference to the application of the duality in a fundamental theory, effective theory and instrumental context. Analysis of the first two contexts is intended to serve as a guide to the potential empirical and ontological status of gauge/gravity dualities as descriptions of actual physics at the Planck scale. The third context is directly connected to the use of AdS/CFT to describe real quark-gluon plasmas. In the l…Read more
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363Unsharp Humean Chances in Statistical Physics: A Reply to BeisbartIn M. C. Galavotti (ed.), New Directions in the Philosophy of Science, Springer. pp. 531-542. 2014.In an illuminating article, Claus Beisbart argues that the recently-popular thesis that the probabilities of statistical mechanics (SM) are Best System chances runs into a serious obstacle: there is no one axiomatization of SM that is robustly best, as judged by the theoretical virtues of simplicity, strength, and fit. Beisbart takes this 'no clear winner' result to imply that the probabilities yielded by the competing axiomatizations simply fail to count as Best System chances. In this reply, w…Read more
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3Epistemology of Fundamental Physics: Why Trust a Theory? (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2019.
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Ludwig Maximilians Universität, MünchenFaculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of ReligionGraduate student
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