LUCY MASON

I am a postdoctoral associate at the University of Pittsburgh working on perspectives in science, primarily physics. I look at ideas relating to how 1st person embedded perspectives inform our understanding of reality and how it influences the interpretation of theories such as statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics. I explore how thinking about perspectives relates to understanding measurement and inter-theoretic relations of emergence and reduction. More generally, these questions effect how we think about empirical confirmation and what it means to have objective scientific knowledge. 

Prior to this I was a postdoc at Royal Holloway working as part of the project 'What is metrology if quantum measurements participate in making reality' (more details on this project here), applying these ideas to measurement in quantum mechanics. Before that I did my PhD at King's College London focusing on how perspectives, information, and emergence help us understand the metaphysics of time.

In addition to my main areas of research I also co-run a Philosophy of Sex, Sexuality and Gender reading group based in London at LSE and draw from feminist epistemology to inform my work on perspectives in science. Additionally, I am very interested in environmental philosophy and our relationship with nature (both scientific, cultural, and personal). I have written a blog post about this here.

My pronouns are she/her.