Dr. Mario Hubert

Personal information

• Since 2024:
  Research Associate at the Chair of Metaphysics, LMU Munich.
• 2022 - 24:
  Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The American University in Cairo.
• 2019 - 22:
  Howard E. and Susanne C. Jessen Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy of Physics, California Institute of Technology.
• 2018 - 19:
  Swiss National Science Foundation Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship.
  12 months at the Department of Philosophy, Columbia University.
  6 months at the Department of Philosophy, New York University.
• 2017:
  PhD in Philosophy, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
• 2013:
  Diploma in Mathematics, LMU Munich.

Research interests

Philosophy of Physics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology

Selected publications

1. The History of Moral Certainty as the Pre-History of Typicality.
   In Bassi, A., Goldstein, S., Tumulka, R., and Zanghì, N., editors, Physics and the Nature of Reality: Essays in Memory of Detlef Dürr. Heidelberg: Springer, 2024.
2. Towards Ideal Understanding, (with Federica Malfatti). Ergo, 10(22):578-611, 2023.
3. Absorbing the Arrow of Electromagnetic Radiation, (with Charles Sebens). Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 99: 10-27, 2023.
4. Is the Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics ψ-Ontic or ψ-Epistemic? Foundations of Physics, 53(16):1-23, 2023.
5. Understanding Physics: ‘What?’, ‘Why?’, and ‚How?’ European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 11(3):1-36, 2021.
6. Reviving Frequentism. Synthese, 199:5255-5284, 2021.
   When Fields Are Not Degrees of Freedom, (with Vera Hartenstein). The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 72(1):245-275, 2021.
7. The Wave-Function as a Multi-Field, (with Davide Romano). European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 8(3):521–37, 2018.