Alex Franklin

Philosopher of Physics, Lecturer at King's College London

[Alex Franklin @PhilPhysAlex]

I wrote a (hopefully!) accessible article explaining my philosophy of physics research: https://t.co/zq5RzEZwox
Thanks so much to @El_Dritch @quiteclare @forumphilosophy for inviting me to do this! For those interested, the less accessible version is here: https://t.co/ZDc57HC96a

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Yuval Harari just published a piece on Zionism in the @washingtonpost. He argues:

"Nothing in this Zionist idea implies that Jews are superior to others, whether they are Greeks or Poles — or Palestinians." @harari_yuval

A short🧵.

[Jon Williamson @Jon_Williamson_]

This is a turning point in UK higher education. A financially viable department cut in order to pay for the expansion of subjects that get more high-fees international students. If this is allowed to happen, many many unis will follow. Please speak out!

[David Papineau @davidpapineau]

We're making a permanent appoinment in the history of early modern or modern philosophy
https://t.co/t4P7NdOwk2

[Alex Franklin @PhilPhysAlex]

@weatherall_jim Happy Birthday! What a brilliant line-up, I'm very disappointed to be in the wrong continent!

[Alex Franklin @PhilPhysAlex]

I've a new paper on how worlds emerge in Everettian quantum mechanics. I argue that decoherence is the mechanism that allows worlds to evolve independently from one another, so worlds emerge from underlying reality just as bouncy balls and gases emerge!
https://t.co/Md09B6yAnK

[Anna Roiser @AnnaRoiser]

I wrote about how feeling compassion for Palestinians doesn't lessen our compassion for Israelis, and looking for hope in the Jewish-Arab partnerships offering a vision of an alternative, brighter, future.

Compassion is not a pizza with eight slices: https://t.co/yb22w9XfsW

[David Papineau @davidpapineau]

We're looking for an 18-month Lecturer in Philosophy and Medicine—application deadline 12 November https://t.co/iKV5a5Olzn

[Eleanor Knox @DrEleanorKnox]

My brilliant student Lucy Mason giving a wonderful talk at Foundations of Physics 2023...

[MetaScience @MetaScienceEU]

Second talk of the day, the first ever postdoc of the project (and now @kingsphilosophy lecturer) Alex Franklin presenting “Against Bridge Laws: Reduction in the Structuralist Mode” @PhilPhysAlex

[MetaScience @MetaScienceEU]

And that’s him being very happy about what we put together, which counts +29 papers, +100 talks, +20 articles and many more things coming! @ttahko @tobytfriend @KimptonNye @PhilPhysAlex @seifert_vanessa @Dr_Will_Morgan @FranciBellazzi

[Alex Franklin @PhilPhysAlex]

@tobytfriend Congratulations! That's brilliant news!

[Alex Franklin @PhilPhysAlex]

@FranciBellazzi @MetaScienceEU @ttahko Many congratulations Francesca! Excellent news!

[FraMEPhys @FraMEPhys]

The final talk from our workshop on the metaphysics of quantum theory from Alex Franklin @PhilPhysAlex - on the worlds of many-worlds quantum mechanics as emergent structure https://t.co/mKdeRuKpTE

[King's Philosophy @kingsphilosophy]

BBLOC Philosophy of Physics Seminar: Dr Sam Fletcher (Minnesota) – ‘The Representation and Determinable Structure of Quantum Properties’ Thursday 1st December 2022, 5pm, KCL Bush House (SE) 1.01 https://t.co/C1NXqStv5X

[Alex Franklin @PhilPhysAlex]

@_TechyBen @FraMEPhys @nmrqip Thanks - I intend to upload a draft of the paper to @PhilSciArchive in the next few weeks!

[FraMEPhys @FraMEPhys]

Alex Franklin @PhilPhysAlex wraps up today's workshop with a talk on how quantum worlds emerge from the quantum state, pushing back against objections to Everettian quantum theory which turn on its appeal to decoherence to secure determinate macroscopic outcomes

[Alex Franklin @PhilPhysAlex]

@HikeMix @FraMEPhys Congratulations - brilliant news!

[Noelia IR, PhD @niranzri]

Post-lunch talk with @PhilPhysAlex of @MetaScienceEU convincing us that chances (the universe does not play 🎲) are not only reserved for fundamental probabilities in physics.

[David Papineau @davidpapineau]

⁦Alex Franklin ⁦⁦@PhilPhysAlex⁩ in Lisbon today telling us how the universe plays dice—that is, about the nature of objective probabilities

[Eleanor Knox @DrEleanorKnox]

One year political philosophy lectureship at King's - come and join us! https://t.co/VCDD2ZULWz