Talks/WiPs

• Workshop on Attention, Evidence, and Feminist Epistemologies (March 2025)

Emergence of Salience of Race

• PSA Biennial Conference New Orleans Symposium on Dynamics, Probabilities, and Initial Conditions (November 2024)
  Some  Weather  Probabilities are Ontic and Objective
  
  

• LSE Sigma Club (April 2024)
  Some Climate Probabilities are Ontic and Objective
  
  

• Stirling Workshop on Statistical Mechanics and the Arrow of Time (May 2024)
  Some Climate Probabilities are Ontic and Objective
  
  

• Physics at the Interface, Durham (September 2023)
  Social Construction and Physical Construction
  
  

• BSPS Annual Conference, Bristol (July 2023)
  How the Universe Plays Dice: Emergent Probabilities in Everettian Quantum Mechanics
  
  

• MetaScience Final Conference, Bristol (June 2023)
  Against Bridge Laws: Reduction in the Structuralist Mode
  
  

• Philosophy of Science Conference, Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik (May 2023)
  How the Universe Plays Dice: Emergent Probabilities in Everettian Quantum Mechanics
  
  

• Math-First Structural Realism Workshop, UC Irvine (March 2023)
  Against Bridge Laws: Reduction in the Structuralist Mode
  
  

• UC Irvine Philosophy Colloquium (March 2023)
  How to Understand the Social Construction of Race
  
  

• SoCal Philosophy of Physics, UC Irvine (January 2023)
  Incoherent?  No, Just Decoherent:  How Quantum Many Worlds Emerge
  
  

• British and Irish Postgraduate Philosophy Association (BIPPA) Annual Conference (November 2022)
  How to Understand the Social Construction of Race
  
  

• Metaphysics of Quantum Theory Workshop, University of Birmingham (October 2022)
  Incoherent?  No, Just Decoherent:  How Quantum Many Worlds Emerge
  
  

• Bergen Philosophy of Science Workshop, University of Bergen (September 2022)
  Incoherent?  No, Just Decoherent:  How Quantum Many Worlds Emerge
  
  

• Emergence and Reduction in Science and Metaphysics, University of Lisbon (July 2022) How the Universe Plays Dice: Emergent Probabilities in Physics

• BSPS Annual Conference, Exeter (July  2022)
  Incoherent?  No, Just Decoherent:  How Quantum Many Worlds Emerge
  
  

• KCL Staff Seminar (December 2021)
  Emerging Into The Rainforest
  
  

• Bristol Philosophy of Science Seminar (November 2021)
  Decoherence and the Emergence of Many Worlds
  
  

• KCL PGR Conference and Cumberland Lodge (October 2021)
  Social Construction, Physical Construction, and Emergence
  
  

• Symposium on Metaphysical Unity of Science, EPSA Biennial Conference, Turin, (September 2021) with Katie Robertson
  Emerging into the Rainforest: Emergence and Special Science Ontology
  
  

• SMS 2021 (September 2021)
  Bohmian Mechanics and Local Reductive Explanation
  
  

• Social Ontology 2021, UCSD, (August 2021)
  Social Construction, Physical Construction, and Emergence
  
  

• 24th International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry Symposium (July 2021)  with Vanessa Seifert
  The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is The Measurement Problem
  
  

• Symposium on Analogy and Unity in Chemical Ontology, BSPS Annual Conference, Kent /Online, (July 2021) with Vanessa Seifert
  The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is The Measurement Problem
  
  

• Saloom (June 2021)
  Social Construction and Race
  
  

• "Going Up?" Realisation and Composition across the Sciences, MetaScience Conference (June 2021) with Katie Robertson
  Emerging into the Rainforest: Emergence and Special Science Ontology
  
  

• Annual Royal Institute of Philosophy / Institute of Physics Public Lecture, University of York, (June 2021)
  How Do The Special Sciences Emerge From Physics?
  
  

• Harvard Foundations of Physics Series (March 2021)
  Emergence, Autonomy, and Naturalness
  
  

• MetaScience WiP (March 2021) with Katie Robertson
  Emerging into the Rainforest: Emergence and Special Science Ontology
  
  

• Leeds HPS Seminar (February 2021)
  Social Construction, Physical Construction, and Emergence
  
  

• FraMEPhys-MetaScience Joint Workshop (December 2020) with Katie Robertson
  Emerging into the Rainforest
  
  

• 6th Panhellenic Conference in Philosophy of Science (December 2020)
  The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is The Measurement Problem
  
  

• Works In Progress in the Philosophy of Social Science (October 2020)
  Social Construction, Physical Construction, and Emergence
  
  

• MetaScience WiP (June 2020) with Vanessa Seifert
  The Problem of Molecular Structure Just Is The Measurement Problem
  
  

• Levitated Nanophysics Group KCL (June 2020)
  Emergence in Physics: The Case of Phonons
  
  

• MetaScience WiP (May 2020)
  Can Multiple Realisation Be Explained?
  
  

• KCL Staff Seminar (May 2020)
  Social Construction, Physical Construction, and Emergence
  
  

• FraMEPhys-MetaScience Joint Workshop, Oxford, (December 2019)
  How to be a Bohmian Reductionist
  
  

• Society for the Metaphysics of Science Annual Conference, Toronto, (November 2019)
  On the Autonomy of the Special Sciences
  
  

• Symposium on Multiple Realisability in the Sciences, BSPS Annual Conference, Durham, (July 2019)
  Multiple Realisability in Physics
  
  

• Rutgers-Bristol Workshop on the Metaphysical Unity of Science, Newark, (June 2019)
  How Do Levels Emerge?
  
  

• Bristol-Madrid Workshop on Naturalism and Fundamentality, Bristol (June 2019)
  Fundamentality and the Arrow of Reduction
  
  

• DIEP Conference on Emergence, Amsterdam (May 2019)
  How Do Levels Emerge?
  
  

• FraMEPhys Workshop on Levels, Birmingham (April 2019)
  How Do Levels Emerge?
  
  

• Cumberland Lodge, KCL Physics (March 2019)
  The Physics and Philosophy of Quantum Collapse
  
  

• University of Oxford Philosophy of Physics Research Seminar (February 2019)
  Whence the Effectiveness of Effective Field Theories?
  
  

• Imperial College - UCL Joint Undergraduate Physics Conference (January 2019)
  Emergence in Physics: The Case of Phonons
  
  

• Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Conference, Seattle (November 2018)
  Universality Reduced
  
  

• 1st Irvine-Munich-PoliMi-Salzburg Conference in Philosophy and Foundations of Physics (September 2018)
  Universality Reduced
  
  

• KCL Maxwell Society (November 2017)
  Emergence in Physics: The Case of Phonons
  
  

• University of Bristol Philosophy of Physics Group (November 2017)
  Whence the Effectiveness of Effective Field Theories?
  
  

• Cumberland Lodge, KCL Philosophy (October 2017)
  Scientific Reduction and the Multifaceted Approach
  
  

• British Society for Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, Edinburgh (July 2017)
  Whence the Effectiveness of Effective Field Theories?
  
  

• The 14th Annual Berkeley/London Philosophy Conference, Berkeley (May 2017)
  How Does Acausal Physics Underwrite Special Science Causation?
  
  

• Workshop on Effective Field Theory, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (January 2017)
  Effective Field Theory and Three Types of Autonomy
  
  

• University of Pittsburgh HPS Work in Progress Seminar (December 2016)
  Who's Afraid of 'Reductionism'?
  
  

• British Society for Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, Cardiff (July 2016)
  Emergence Without Limits: A Case Study
  
  

• 4th Irvine-Pittsburgh-Princeton Conference on the Mathematical and Conceptual Foundations of Physics (March 2016)
  Universality Explained
  
  

• 15th Congress on Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Helsinki (August 2015)
  The Multi-Storey Humean Mosaic and the Emergence of Deterministic Chance
  
  

• British Society for Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, Manchester (July 2015)
  Universality Explained? Some Interpretative Issues in the Physics of Critical Phenomena
  
  

• University of Oxford Graduate Philosophy of Physics Seminar (May 2015)
  Universality Explained?
  
  

• 2nd International Summer School in Philosophy of Physics (July 2014)
  Probability in the Multiverse: Lessons from the Everett Interpretation