Mario Hubert
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Physics
Philosophy of Science
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Areas of Competence
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Mathematics
Early Modern Philosophy
Ancient Greek Philosophy
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The American University in Cairo.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. (from Sept. '24)
Highlights
My 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 this 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).
News
2024
Starting in Fall '24, I will be Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the LMU Munich at the Chair of Metaphysics lead by Alyssa Ney.
A shortened version of the article Towards Ideal Understanding (with Federica Malfatti) has been published on the Ergo Blog.
2023
My article The History of Moral Certainty as the Pre-History of Typicality is forthcoming in Bassi, A., Goldstein, S., Tumulka, R., and Zanghì, N., editors, Physics and the Nature of Reality: Essays in Memory of Detlef Dürr. Heidelberg: Springer, forthcoming.
My article How Philosophy May Help to Deal with Disagreement has now been published on the Everyday Lifestyle Blog of the American Philosophical Association (APA).
My open newsletter article of the Center for Learning and Teaching at The American University in Cairo is now published: How Does AI Impact Learning? University Education as Mindbuilding.
My co-authored paper with Charles Sebens Absorbing the Arrow of Electromagnetic Radiation is forthcoming in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.
[download preprint]
2022
My paper Is the Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics ψ-Ontic or ψ-Epistemic? has now been published in Foundations of Physics.
[download]My co-authored paper with Federica Malfatti Towards Ideal Understanding is forthcoming in Ergo.
[journal version][download preprint]My popular article What If Light Doesn't Exist? is now out as a BJPS Short Read. You can also listen to the audio version (read by Jake Ayers) on the website or on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Pocket Casts, and Radio Public.
My review of Alyssa Ney's book The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics has now been published in Philosophy of Science.
[journal version] [download preprint]
Online Profiles