Karen Crowther

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Email karen.crowther@ifikk.uio.no

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Academic interests

I specialise in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of physics, and have interests in metaphysics and epistemology.

Scientific methodology;
Theory change;
Non-empirical guides to theory development;
Inter-theory relations in physics (including reduction, correspondence, and emergence);
Fundamentality;
Space and time;
Quantum gravity.

For more details, including links to publicly accessible versions of my publications, please see my website or my PhilPeople profile.

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Background

Associate Professor; Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, 2019–
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva 2016–2019
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh 2014–2015
PhD in Philosophy, University of Sydney, 2015
BA. (Hons) in Philosophy, Monash University, 2009
BSc. (Hons) in Physics, Monash University, 2008

Tags: Philosophy, Philosophy of science, Philosophy of Physics, Metaphysics

Crowther, Karen & De Haro, Sebastian (2022). Four attitudes towards singularities in the search for a theory of quantum gravity. In Vassallo, Antonio (Eds.), The Foundations of Spacetime Physics: Philosophical Perspectives. Routledge. ISSN 9781003219019. Full text in Research Archive
Crowther, Karen (2022). Spacetime Emergence: Collapsing the Distinction Between Content and Context? In Wuppuluri, Shyam & Stuart, Ian (Ed.), From Electrons to Elephants and Elections: Exploring the Role of Content and Context. Springer. ISSN 978-3-030-92191-0. p. 379–402. Full text in Research Archive
Crowther-Telbis, Karen; Linnemann, Niels & Wüthrich, Christian (2021). What we cannot learn from analogue experiments. Synthese. ISSN 0039-7857. doi: 10.1007/s11229-019-02190-0.
Crowther-Telbis, Karen (2021). Defining a crisis: the roles of principles in the search for a theory of quantum gravity. Synthese. ISSN 0039-7857. doi: 10.1007/s11229-018-01970-4.
Crowther-Telbis, Karen (2020). As below, so before: ‘synchronic’ and ‘diachronic’ conceptions of spacetime emergence. Synthese. ISSN 0039-7857. doi: 10.1007/s11229-019-02521-1.
Crowther-Telbis, Karen (2020). What is the Point of Reduction in Science? Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy. ISSN 0165-0106. doi: 10.1007/s10670-018-0085-6.
Crowther-Telbis, Karen (2020). What is the Point of Reduction in Science? Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy. ISSN 0165-0106. doi: 10.1007/s10670-018-0085-6.
Crowther-Telbis, Karen (2020). Spacetime functionalism in general relativity and quantum gravity. Synthese. ISSN 0039-7857. doi: 10.1007/s11229-020-02722-z. Full text in Research Archive
Crowther-Telbis, Karen (2020). As below, so before: ‘synchronic’ and ‘diachronic’ conceptions of spacetime emergence. Synthese. ISSN 0039-7857. doi: 10.1007/s11229-019-02521-1. Full text in Research Archive
Crowther-Telbis, Karen (2019). Renormalizability, Fundamentality, and a Final Theory: The Role of UV-Completion in the Search for Quantum Gravity. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. ISSN 0007-0882. doi: 10.1093/bjps/axx052.
Crowther-Telbis, Karen (2018). Inter-theory Relations in Quantum Gravity: Correspondence, Reduction and Emergence. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. ISSN 1355-2198. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.12.002.
Crowther-Telbis, Karen (2015). Decoupling emergence and reduction in physics. European Journal for Philosophy of Science. ISSN 1879-4912. doi: 10.1007/s13194-015-0119-8.
Crowther-Telbis, Karen & Rickles, Dean (2014). Introduction: Principles of quantum gravity. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. ISSN 1355-2198. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2013.12.004.
Crowther-Telbis, Karen (2013). Emergent spacetime according to effective field theory: From top-down and bottom-up. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. ISSN 1355-2198. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2012.08.001.

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Crowther-Telbis, Karen (2018). Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy By Carl Gillett. Philosophy. ISSN 0031-8191. doi: 10.1017/S0031819118000153.