Condensed Matter

Episode 12: "What Everyone Should Say about Symmetries (and How Humeans Get to Say It)", Michael Townsen Hicks (deep dive featuring the author!)

August 25, 2021 Sam Kimpton-Nye
Condensed Matter
Episode 12: "What Everyone Should Say about Symmetries (and How Humeans Get to Say It)", Michael Townsen Hicks (deep dive featuring the author!)
Show Notes

For this episode, I’m joined by Dr Michael Townsen Hicks to discuss his paper “What Everyone Should Say about Symmetries (and How Humeans Get to Say It)”, published in Philosophy of Science in 2019. Mike is a research fellow on the FramePhys project at the University of Birmingham.

Link to the paper: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/705475
More about Mike: https://www.townsenhicks.com/
The FraMEPhys project: https://framephys.org/

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