Mario Hubert

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.

News

• I'll be giving a public talk on How Do Laws of Nature Make Matter Move? at the NYUAD Institute in New York City on March 2. The talk is based on my Aeon article The Nature of Natural Laws .

• I've organized the workshop The Ontology of Fields at LMU Munich, which took place from 7–9 January, 2026.

Highlights

• My popular article on laws of nature, The Nature of Natural Laws, was published in Aeon Magazine in 2024. The article explores how laws of nature govern the physical world and what it means for them to have causal power.

• My academic article When Fields Are Not Degrees of Freedom (co-authored with Vera Hartenstein) has received an Honourable Mention in the 2021 Popper Prize Competition as Top 3 of the best papers published in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science in 2021. 

• You can listen to the popular version of the above article What If Light Doesn't Exist? on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Pocket Casts, and Radio Public.

• My research in the philosophy of classical electrodynamics is presented to a general audience in the Aeon article What's everything made of?  written by Charles T. Sebens.
  (reprinted in American Scientist  and quoted in Nature Briefing)

• My preferred interpretation of the wave-function (as developed in the article The Wave-Function as a Multi-Field, co-authored with Davide Romano) is discussed in section 2.7 of Alyssa Ney's new book The World  in the Wave Function (Oxford University Press, 2021). 

Online Profiles

• LMU Website

• Google Scholar

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• ORCID