Collection
Establishing the Philosophy of Supersymmetry
This topical collection will bring together recent, cutting-edge work conceptual, epistemic and experimental issues related to supersymmetry. Topics covered will include theory development and assessment in absence of empirical confirmation of supersymmetry, interpretations of symmetries, and the metaphysics of supersymmetry. The proposed collection will also include a distinctly historical angle, exploring both the foundations of supersymmetry itself, and its influence on dark matter, another central research area in modern physics.
Editors
-
Tushar Menon
Tushar Menon (University of Cambridge) wrote one of the first papers on the philosophy of supersymmetry, and has also published in a number of relevant areas: the philosophy of noncommutative geometry, meta-empirical theory assessment and the philosophy of spacetime. He was a co-awardee (along with Richard Dawid) of the Stockholm-Cambridge grant that funded the `Establishing the philosophy of supersymmetry’ workshop.
-
Richard Dawid
Richard Dawid’s (Stockholm University) expertise spans a number of areas of central importance to the philosophy of supersymmetry, including theoretical high-energy physics and astrophysics, Bayesian confirmation and meta-empirical theory assessment, and scientific realism. He has published extensively on all of these topics, and was one of the local organisers of the ‘Establishing the philosophy of supersymmetry’ workshop held in Stockholm in May 2022.
-
Siska De Baerdemaeker
Siska De Baerdemaeker (Stockholm University) has published several papers on history and philosophy of astrophysics and cosmology. Her research on the epistemology of experimental searches for dark matter is directly relevant to the empirical searches for supersymmetry. She was one of the local organizers of the ‘Establishing the philosophy of supersymmetry’ workshop.
