The Role of Age in the Promotion of Young People in Philosophy and Physics

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There are more students in Europe who have come through LMU and through his influence. A lot of physicists who realize they're interested in foundations notice that if you have credentials as a philosopher, you can more literally more easily have an academic career in a philosophy department. As a philosopher of physics, then you can in the physics department. Still physicists. So some of them have switched over. Also Dettliffe's do, I mean, Dustin Lazaro-Vich, who's now in the Technion in Israel. There are people who are around. And it's more than there used to be.

Last year's Nobel Prize for experimental tests of Bell's Theorem was the first Nobel in the foundations of quantum mechanics since Max Born in 1954. Quantum foundations is enjoying a bit of a resurgence, inspired in part by improving quantum technology but also by a realization that understanding quantum mechanics might help with other problems in physics (and be important in its own right). Tim Maudlin is a leading philosopher of physics and also a skeptic of the Everett interpretation. We discuss the logic behind hidden-variable approaches such as Bohmian mechanics, and also the broader question of the importance of the foundations of physics.

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Blog post with transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/06/26/241-tim-maudlin-on-locality-hidden-variables-and-quantum-foundations/

Tim Maudlin received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently a professor of philosophy at New York University. He is a member of the Academie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences and the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow. He is the founder and director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics in Croatia.

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