Martin L. King
Research
Published Articles
"Doing More with Less: Dark Matter & Modified Gravity" with N. Martens (2023), in Philosophy of Astrophysics: Stars, Simulations, and the Struggle to Determine What is Out There, Nora Mills Boyd, Siska De Baerdemaeker, Kevin Heng & Vera Matarese (eds.) Synthese Library, vol 472. Springer Verlag. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26618-8_6
"Universality is not Universal: how much can we explain with falsehoods?" (2022), Metascience, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-022-00739-3
"Bottoms Up: The Standard Model Effective Field Theory from a Model Perspective" (2022) Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 92, pp. 129–143, with P. Bechtle, C. Chall, M. Krämer, P. Mättig, and M. Stöltzner.
"Conjectures and Disconfirmations: Confirming the Standard Model Higgs" (2021), Erkenntnis, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-021-00473-
"Explanations and Candidate Explanations in Physics" (2020), European Journal for Philosophy of Science 10: 7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-019-0273-5
Preprint Version
Preprint Version
"From a boson to the standard model Higgs: a case study in confirmation and model dynamics" (2019), Synthèse SI: Reasoning in Physics (with C. Chall, P. Maettig, and M. Stoeltzner) pp. 1-33.
Preprint Version
Preprint Version
"On structural accounts of model-explanations," (2016), Synthèse, 193(9) pp. 2761-2778. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0885-z
Preprint Version
Preprint Version
Articles Under Review
"Deep Learning as Model Independence"
Manuscript Version (Fall 2023)
Manuscript Version (Fall 2023)
"The End of the Theory-driven Era: 50 Years of Particle Physics", with N. Boddenberg and M. Stoeltzner.
Manuscripts in Progress
"Shallow Explanations with Deep Learning"
"Theoretical Virtues and the Pursuit of Ugly Models"
"The Beampipe Pipeline: Data and Machine Learning in Particle Physics"
"Machine Learning: A New Case for Inductivism"
"Pluralism about Progress" with N. Boddenberg, M. Stoeltzner, and P. Maettig.
Mechanisms in Particle Physics. (with M. Stöltzner)
Edited Volumes
"Simplicity out of Complexity? Physics and the Aims of Science" Synthese Topical Collection.
Research Interests
Philosophy of ScienceMy interests in the philosophy of science are largely epistemological and concern the broad topics of scientific explanation, modelling, and confirmation.
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Philosophy of PhysicsMy philosophy of physics interests concern methodological and epistemological issues in particle physics, in particular that involving deep learning.
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Deep Learning in Particle Physics:
A Philosophical Analysis
Coming Soon.
Research Groups
Epistemology of the LHC
My research for the past six years has been part of the DFG-funded research group The Epistemology of the LHC.
I was working as the postdoctoral researcher for the Group B2: Model Building and Dynamics.
I was working as the postdoctoral researcher for the Group B2: Model Building and Dynamics.
B2: Model-Building and Model-Dynamics
The B2 group studies the changing landscape of models in particle physics. See the group's main page for more information about our project and publications.
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
I am a member of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU.
Lichtenberg Group for History and Philosophy of Physics
I am also an affiliated member of the Lichtenberg Group for History and Philosophy of Physics at the University of Bonn.
Recent Conference Presentations
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23.11.2022
13.11.2021 29.10.2021 16.09.2021 07.07.2021 17.09.2020 11.09.2019 10.08.2019 19.07.2019 04.06.2019 03.06.2019 25.02.2019 02.11.2018 03.10.2018 04.07.2018 17.03.2018 05.08.2015 05.11.2014 |
Theory Choice in the Age of Models
Theoretical Virtues and Non-Empirical Guides in Scientific Theory Development, Aarhus, Denmark Abstraction, Explanation, and Effective Field Theories 27th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Baltimore, MD The Rise of Model Independence 20th Foundations of Physics, Paris Realism and Representation in the Search for New Physics in Symposium: Models in Particle Physics: Three Challenges to Realism Biennial Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, Torino, Italy Realism and Representation in the Search for New Physics in Symposium: Models in Particle Physics: Three Challenges to Realism British Society for Philosophy of Science 2021 Annual Conference, Kent, UK Explanations with (and of) the Higgs Mechanism Ernst Mach Workshop IX, Prague Explanation and Effective Field Theories Biennial Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, Geneva Switzerland Towards the Reconciliation of Confirmation Assessments Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science and Technology 2019, Prague Explanation and Effective Field Theories in Symposium: Effective Field Theories: Top-down and Bottom-up British Society for Philosophy of Science 2019 Annual Conference, Durham, UK Towards the Reconciliation of Confirmation Assessments 2019 Meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association, Vancouver, BC Explanation and the Rise of Model Independence 2019 meeting of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Vancouver, BC Explanation and the Rise of Model Independence in Symposium: Models in High Energy Physics 3rd International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science, Cologne, Germany Bona Fide Explanations in Physics 50th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 2018, Seattle, WA Ontological Aspects of Effective Quantum Field Theories Congress of Ontology XIII: Physics and Ontology, San Sebastian, Spain La Confirmation du Boson de Higgs VIIieme Congres de la Societe de Philosophie des Sciences, Nantes, France Explanatory Models: A Framework for Instrumentalism Models and Simulations 8, Columbia, SC On Structural Accounts of Model Explanations 15th Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Helsinki, Finland Idealization and Structural Explanation in Physics 48th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 2014, Chicago, IL |
Recent Invited Talks
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18.03.2021
26.06.2019 03.12.2018 18.04.2018 21.12.2017 26.04.2017 |
Particle Physics at the Crossroads
Philosophy of Science Seminar, Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology, University of Paris 7 The Rise of Model Independence Bonn History and Philosophy of Physics Seminar, Bonn, Germany Confirming the Minimal Higgs Sector Bonn Philosophy of Science Colloquium, Bonn, Germany Confirmation of the SM Higgs Boson Philosophy of Science Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia Model-Explanations Bonn-Cologne Philosophy of Science Colloquium, Cologne, Germany Explanatory Models in Particle Physics Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies Colloquium Series, Wuppertal, Germany |
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