Research interests
General philosophy of science
rational reconstructions of theories with special emphasis on the Structuralist View
impact of the Bourbaki program on the Structuralist View on theories of empirical sciences
intertheoretical relations and reductions beyond Neo-Nagelian approaches
relevance of approximations and idealisations in exact sciences
configurational analyses for causal modeling
Philosophy of physics
physics of phase transitions and further issues of thermo-statistical physics
interplay of asymptotic and limiting reductions in physics
foundations of quantum mechanics
Books
Mierau, J. (forthcoming). The Paradox of Phase Transitions – A Structuralist Solution.
Mierau, J. (2023). Erhard Scheibe's Structuralism – Roots and Prospects. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 213. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25347-8
Software package
Mierau, J. (2022). multi-Level Coincidence Analysis. https://github.com/user-jm/multi-lvl-Coincidence-Analysis
Talks
26/07/2023, Buenos Aires, International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology 2023, DLMPST, Talk: Bourbaki’s Legacy in the Structuralism of Physics
12/07/2023, Lisbon, 4th Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science, CFCUL, Talk: Bourbaki’s Legacy in the Structuralism of Physics
26/10/2022, Berlin, Gesimex Symposium Computational Mechanisms in Brains and Machines – Simplicity & Generalizability, Talk: Generalizability and Simplicity in Boolean Inferential Methods for the Establishment of Constitutive-Mechanistic Models in the Cognitive and Biological Sciences (together with Jens Harbecke)
29/05/2022, London (held online), KCL Graduate Conference on Indeterminacy and Vagueness, King's College London, Talk: Being precise about imprecision
21/04/2022, Dubrovnik, Formal Methods and Science in Philosophy IV, Talk: Admissible blurs – a formal tool to deal with empirical imprecision
20/05/2021, Aix-en-Provence (held online), 9es Rencontres Doctorales Internationales en Philosophie des Sciences, Société de philosophie des sciences, Talk: How the structuralism of theories solves the paradox of phase transitions
15/03/2018, Berlin, Annual Conference of Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, Philosophy of Physics group, Talk: Connecting structuralism with the paradox of phase transitions
04/12/2017, Seville, Seminario "Historia y Filosofía de las Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas", Talk: Estructuralismo en la Filosofía de la Física
13/05/2017, Hannover, PhD workshop on Philosophy of Science, Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie, Presentation: Renormierungen als Reduktionsart