Talks/WiPs

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