Mario Hubert
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Physics
Philosophy of Science
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Areas of Competence
History of Philosophy
History of Physics
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The American University in Cairo.
Ordinary Trustee, Philosophy of Physics Society.
Bell Fellow, John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics.
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.
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).
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