Homepage of Johannes Mierau — Research

Research interests

General philosophy of science


Philosophy of physics


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