Contact
Department of Philosophy
EHI Building
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK
Email:
k.e.robertson@bham.ac.uk
Website:
https://katierobertsonphilosophy.wordpress.com/
Further Information
After completing my MSci at Bristol in Physics and Philosophy, I took the BPhil at the University of Oxford. In October 2018, I completed my PhD at the University of Cambridge with Jeremy Butterfield, during which I visited the MCMP for a very fruitful term. Since then I have been a Research Fellow on the ERC-funded project FraMEPhys, at the University of Birmingham and from May 2021, I will be Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Birmingham.
Research Interests
Much of my research has focussed on the philosophical tangles surrounding thermal physics: the reductive relationship between thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, the nature of time-asymmetry and in what sense thermodynamics is objective (work I undertook at the MCMP with Carina Prunkl). I’m also interested in the debate over reduction and emergence, as well the philosophy of the social sciences.