Beyond Spacetime: The Foundations of Quantum Gravity

About

Nick Huggett is LAS Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago. He has worked in the field of the philosophy of quantum gravity for over twenty years. He is co-editor of Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale (Cambridge 2001) and is Co-Director of the 'Beyond Spacetime' research project funded by NSF Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) John Templeton Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Keizo Matsubara is an Affiliated Researcher at Uppsala University. His philosophical work primarily addresses string theory. He has held postdoctoral positions at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University and the University of Illinois Chicago. Christian Wüthrich is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Genève. He works in philosophy of physics philosophy of science and metaphysics. Starting with his doctoral research the primary focus of his research has long been the philosophy of quantum gravity. He is Co-Director of the 'Beyond Spacetime' research project funded by NSF Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) John Templeton Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).