Nominator's project description
| Professor Michael Esfeld from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Professor Esfeld is a world-leading philosopher of science who has made influential contributions to the metaphysics of science and the metaphysics of physics, which are currently amongst the most active research areas in the philosophy of science. His work is characterized by the development of a methodology for metaphysics that seeks to reanimate natural philosophy (Naturphilosophie) in the sense of a research method that involves physics and metaphysics in a seamless manner without giving priority to one over the other. During his stay in Germany, he intends to examine a number of case studies from physics that illustrate how the central positions in the metaphysics of properties and laws shape the options that are open in the interpretation of physical theories and how these interpretations have in turn repercussions on the further elaboration of these metaphysical positions.
Professor Esfeld is hosted by Professor Stephan Hartmann at LMU Munich. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2018 | Michael Esfeld, Dirk-André Deckert: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Physics - A Minimalist Ontology of the Natural World. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018 |
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| 2014 | Antonio Vassallo
Michael Esfeld: A Proposal for a Bohmian Ontology of Quantum
Gravity. In: Foundations of Physics, 2014, 1-18 |
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| 2014 | Michael Esfeld: Mentale Verursachung und dispositionaler Realismus. In: Anne Sophie Spann
Daniel Wehinger Vermögen und Handlung. Der dispositionale Realismus und unser Selbstverständnis als Handelnde. Mentis, 2014. 113-132 |
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| 2014 | Matthias Egg
Michael Esfeld: Non-local common cause explanations for EPR. In: European Journal for Philosophy of Science , 2014, 181-196 |
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| 2014 | Michael Esfeld: Physics and intrinsic properties. In: Robert Francescotti Companion to intrinsic properties. de Gruyter, 2014. 253-269 |
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| 2014 | Michael Esfeld: Quantum Humeanism, or: physicalism without properties. In: The Philosophical Quarterly , 2014, 453-470 |
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| 2014 | Michael Esfeld
Nicolas Gisin: The GRW flash theory: a relativistic quantum ontology of matter in space-time?. In: Philosophy of Science , 2014, 248-264 |
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| 2014 | Michael Esfeld: The primitive ontology of quantum physics: guidelines for an assessment of the proposals. In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics , 2014, 99-106 |
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