Dr. John Dougherty
Wissenschaftlicher Assistent
Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftstheorie, MCMP
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Wissenschaftlicher Assistent
Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftstheorie, MCMP
John Dougherty is an Assistant Professor in the Chair for Philosophy of Science and the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP). He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the MCMP. Before joining the MCMP, he obtained his PhD in Philosophy at the University of California San Diego in 2018. He earned bachelor’s degrees in physics and in the history, philosophy, and social studies of science and medicine from the University of Chicago in 2010.
John’s research is concerned with topics in philosophy of science and philosophy of mathematics. One of his projects addresses conceptual issues in high-energy particle theory. This project is particularly focused on philosophical questions concerning symmetry and representation, and it argues that understanding these questions requires philosophers to revise their notion of “structure”. More recently, John’s research has addressed issues arising in contemporary versions of empiricism in the philosophy of science, with a focus on how they have been influenced by developments in formal semantics and by the work of Wilfrid Sellars.