Martin L. King

Research

Published Articles

"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" 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
"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
"On structural accounts of model-explanations," (2016), Synthèse, 193(9) pp. 2761-2778. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0885-z
Preprint Version

Articles Under Review

"Abstraction, Explanation, and Effective Field Theories"
Manuscript Version (Spring 2021)

Manuscripts in Progress

Doing More with Less: Dark Matter and Modified Gravity. (with N. Martens)
Towards an Experiment-driven Era in Particle Physics (with N. Boddenberg, P. Mättig, and M. Stöltzner)
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 Science

My interests in the philosophy of science are largely epistemological and concern the broad topics of scientific explanation, modelling, and confirmation.

Philosophy of Physics

My philosophy of science interests are geared towards physics, in particular particle physics. 

Research Group: Epistemology of the LHC

My current research is part of the DFG-funded research group The Epistemology of the LHC. 
I am working as the postdoctoral researcher for the Group B2: Model Building and Dynamics.
The Research Unit has been approved for another 3 years of funding (2019-2022) and we are looking for new postdocs and predocs to join. See the job advertisement here.

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.

Affiliations

​I am also an affiliated member of the Lichtenberg Group for History and  Philosophy of Physics here at Bonn.

Recent Conference Presentations

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

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

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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