Patricia Palacios Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftstheorie Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 D-80539 München Phone: +49 17698455405 patricia.palacios@lrz.uni-muenchen.de http://www.patriciapalaciosblog.wordpress.com/ Areas of Specialty Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science Areas of Competence Philosophy of Economics, Philosophy of Language, Logic, Philosophy of Mind Present Affiliation Doctoral Fellow, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Visiting Scholar at the University of Salzburg under an Ernst Mach Grant Education Ph.D in Philosophy (with minor in Physics), Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig- Maximilians Universität,Germany, 2014-Present M.Sc. in Philosophy of Science, London School of Economics, UK, 2013-2014 M.A in Philosophy, University of Santiago, Chile, 2010-2013 B.Sc. Studies in Physics and Mathematics, University of Santiago, Chile, 2011-2013 Student Exchange, University of Leipzig, Germany, 2008-2009 B.A in Philosophy, University of Chile, Chile, 2006-2009 Visiting Fellowships Visiting Fellow, University of Salzburg, Austria, Oct. 2017-June 2018 Visiting Student Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota, USA, Spring 2017 Visiting Assistant Researcher, University of California, Irvine, USA, Winter 2016
Patricia Palacios 2 Publications Journal Articles with Jennifer Jhun and James Owen Weatherall, forthcoming in Synthese Book Reviews Book Review of Chance and Temporal Asymmetry, edited by Alistair Wilson, International Studies in Philosophy of Science, 30 (2), 185-196 (2016) Edited Collections Infinite Idealizations in Science, edited with Samuel Fletcher, Laura Ruetsche and Elay Shech, Special Issue of Synthese, forthcoming Selected Work in Progress Phase Transitions: A Challenge for Reductionism?" (Under Review) Had We But World Enough and Time... But We Don t! Justifying the Thermodynamic and Infinitetime Limits in Statistical Mechanics" (Under Review) What Makes Scale Invariant Models Explanatory?", with Jennifer Jhun The Ehrenfests on Statistical Mechanics II: Phase Transitions", invited for inclusion in the volume Tatjana Afanassjewa and her Legacy: Philosophical Developments of the Work of a Great Mathematical Physicist On the Universality of the Hawking Radiation", with Karim Thebault and Sean Gryb Redefining Equilibrium for Long-range Interacting Systems", with Lapo Casetti Awards/Scholarships Ernst Mach Grant to visit the University of Salzburg, 2017 ( 9.500) Visiting Research Scholarship at the University of California, Irvine, 2016 ( 5.000) DAAD Scholarship to undertake Ph.D in Philosophy, 2016 ( 30,000) Beca Chile Scholarship to undertake Ph.D in Philosophy, 2014 ( 18,000 each year) Beca Chile Scholarship to undertake MSc. in Philosophy of Science, 2013 ( 35,000) Best Student Award, University of Santiago, Chile, 2012 Master Merit Scholarship, University of Santiago, Chile, 2010 ( 1000) Goethe-Institut/DAAD Scholarship, Mannheim, Germany, 2008. ( 1000)
Patricia Palacios 3 Presentations Invited Talks Do Scale Invariant Models Explain?", Workshop: How stable are democracies? Complex systems Perspectives on Modern Society, Bristol, UK, January 12-13, 2018 [Scheduled] Universal Reasoning", Venice Seminar on Causal Explanatory Reasoning, Venice, Italy, November 14, 2017 [Scheduled] Phase Transitions: A Challenge for Reductionism?", WIP seminar, University of Salzburg, Austria, November 6, 2017 [Scheduled] Market Crashes as Critical Phenomena? Explanation, Idealization, and Universality in Econophysics" (paper with Jennifer Jhun and James Weatherall), Philosophy of Physics Seminar, University of Bristol, UK, October 18, 2017 University of Florence, Italy, October 10, 2017 Philosophical Problems Raised by Phase Transitions", Seminario Permanente de Filosofía de las Ciencias, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, August 16, 2017 Philosophical Problems Raised by Phase Transitions", Summer School in Mathematical Philosophy for Female Students, Munich, Germany, July 31, 2017 Symmetry-Breaking Phase Transition: A challenge for Reductionism?", Workshop: Symmetry and Asymmetry in Physics, Hannover, Germany, July 2017 Phase Transition: A challenge for Reductionism?", Workshop: The infinite limit and phase transitions, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, June 23, 2017 Had We But World Enough, and Time: Justifying the Thermodynamic and Infinite-Time Limits in Statistical Mechanics", Workshop: Tatjana Afanassjewa and her legacy: new perspectives on irreversibility, Salzburg, Austria, June 17, 2017 Had We But World Enough, and Time: Justifying the Thermodynamic and Infinite-Time Limits in Statistical Mechanics", Workshop: Explanation, Idealization and Causation, Munich, Germany, May 27, 2017 Market Crashes as Critical Phenomena?", University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, USA, April 13, 2017 Phase Transition: A challenge for Reductionism?", Philosophy Colloquium University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, March 17, 2017 Symmetry-breaking phase transition: A challenge for reductionism?", Workshop: Symmetry and Symmetry-breaking in Physics, University Paris-6, Paris, France, Dic 2, 2016 Emergence and Reduction in Physics", Philosophy Colloquium, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct 7, 2016 Emergence and Reduction in Physics", Summer School in Mathematical Philosophy for Female Students, Munich, Germany, July 29, 2016 The Role of Approximation in a Reductive Explanation for Phase Transitions", University of California, San Diego, USA, March 9, 2016
Patricia Palacios 4 The Role of Approximation in a Reductive Explanation for Phase Transitions", Southern California Philosophy of Physics Seminar, University of California, Irvine, USA, January 16, 2016 The Role of Approximation in a Reductive Explanation for Phase Transitions", Workshop: Reduction in Physics and Biology, Santiago, Chile, January 5, 2016 The Role of Approximation in a Reductive Explanation for Phase Transitions", University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, October 22, 2015 Infinite Idealizations in Physics", Summer School in Mathematical Philosophy for Female Students, Munich, Germany, July 31, 2015 Other Talks XXIV. Kongress der deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie, September 25, 2017 Had We But World Enough, and Time: Justifying the Thermodynamic and Infinite-Time Limits in Statistical Mechanics", Jornadas Rolando Chuaqui, Valparaíso, Chile, August 23, 2017 MUST 10 Causation and Complexity, Sydney, Australia, March 2017 Phase Transitions: A challenge for reductionism or for Nagelianism?" Foundations of Physics, LSE, UK, July 16, 2016 Giving Econophysics a Chance: On the Plausibility of Modeling Stock Market Crashes as Critical Phase Transitions", Infinite Idealizations in Physics, Munich, Germany, June 9, 2016 The Role of Approximation in a Reductive Explanation for Phase Transitions", Irvine-Princeton- Pittsburgh Conference, Pittsburgh, USA, April 1, 2016 The Role of Approximation in a Reductive Explanation for Phase Transitions", Effective Theories, Mixed Scale Modeling, and Emergence, Pittsburgh, USA, October 2, 2015 Do RG methods provide a reductive explanation for phase transitions?", 15th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, CLMPS 2015, Helsinki, Finland, August 6, 2015 Do RG methods explain continuous phase transitions?" 1 Munich Graduate Workshop in Mathematical Philosophy: Philosophy of Physics, MCMP, Munich, Germany, April 10, 2015 On the role of infinite idealizations in QFT", Re-thinking foundations of physics, Dorfgastein, Austria, April 3, 2015 Teaching Experience As Instructor Reduction and Emergence in Science (Graduate course), Winter 2017/2018, LMU, Germany [in English] Philosophical Problems in Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (Graduate course), e-learning course, IFICC, Chile, Summer 2016, Summer 2017 [in Spanish] Philosophy of Language (Undergraduate course), Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Summer 2013 [in Spanish]
Patricia Palacios 5 Philosophy, Relativity and Quantum Mechanics (Undergraduate course), Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Winter 2012 [in Spanish] Philosophy of Science (Undergraduate course), Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Summer 2012, Summer 2013 [in Spanish] Logical Reasoning (Undergraduate course), Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Winter 2011, Summer 2012, Winter 2012 [in Spanish] Introduction to Logic (Undergraduate course), Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Summer 2011, Winter 2011, Summer 2012, Winter 2012 [in Spanish] As Teaching Assistant Philosophy of Science, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Summer 2015, Summer 2017 [in German] Philosophy of Mind, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Winter 2011 [in Spanish] Epistemology, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Summer 2010 [in Spanish] Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Leipzig, Summer 2009 [in German] Professional Activities Co-organizer of Workshop Explanation, Multiscale Models and Multiple Realizability, Valparaiso, Chile, March 5-8 2018 [scheduled] Workshop With and without measure: symmetry and symmetry breaking Workshop, Munich, Germany, June 20, 2017 Workshop Explanation, Idealization and Causation Workshop, Munich, Germany, May 27, 2017 Workshop Infinite Idealizations in Science, MCMP, Munich, Germany, June 8-9, 2016 Workshop Reduction in Physics and Biology, Santiago, Chile, January 4-6, 2016 Workshop Ontology of Fundamental Physics, Santiago, Chile, December 9, 2015 1 Munich Graduate Workshop in Mathematical Philosophy: Philosophy of Physics, MCMP, Munich, Germany, April 9-11, 2015 Diplomado en Filosofía de las Ciencias, IFICC, Santiago, Chile, 2015 Referee for Philosophy of Science; British Journal for the Philosophy of Science; Conicyt. Member of Instituto de Filosofía y Ciencias de la Complejidad, Santiago, Chile (IFICC); Sociedad Chilena de Filosofía de las Ciencias.
Patricia Palacios 6 Other Educational Experiences Training School: Are spin-statistics connection and quantum theory exact?, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy, December 19-21, 2016 Summer School on Idealizations in Physics, Tubingen, Germany, July 27-31, 2015 Summer School on Emergence: The Durham Emergence Project, Durham, UK, July 21-25, 2014 Summer School on Einstein s Philosophy of Science, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany, July 30-August 3, 2012 Languages Spanish (mother tongue); English (fluent); German (fluent); French (basic) Last updated: October 24, 2017