How does physics advance our understanding of nature?
How is expanation in physics achieved, as distinct from mere prediction?
This project aims to further our knowledge of the innovative explanatory proactices of contemporary physics. It also aims to advance the philosophical analysis of scientific explanation by developing a new critical and normative account of explanation in science.
My SSHRC project, "The Origins of Value," will root issues of economics in the existential conditions that make possible such a thing as “value” in the first place, interpret core principles of economic theory in light of this, and develop the implications of this for the interpretation of the political implications of contemporary global capitalism.
Educated at Oxford and Harvard, his research interests include Jewish philosophy, Kant, German idealism, post-Kantian approaches within analytic and continental philosophy, transcendental arguments, metaphysics and epistemology, and the foundations of the human sciences.
