Mike Schneider

Assistant Professor Mike Schneider sitting in swing
Assistant Professor
224 Middlebush Hall
schneidermd@missouri.edu
https://www.philosopherof.science/
Faculty
Education

B.S. Physics, Philosophy (Tufts University)

M.A. Philosophy (Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California – Irvine)

Ph.D. Philosophy (Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California – Irvine)

Bio

​​​​​​I study how new theories are created in fundamental physics – particularly, contemporary work in quantum gravity – and what role cosmology (the study of the universe as a whole) has gotten to play in the process. I am also interested in the strategic and social dynamics of science: how embodied agents come together in pursuit of new scientific knowledge.

Select Publications

History and Philosophy of Physics

  • (Monograph) “Quantum gravity in a laboratory?” (with co-authors Nick Huggett and Niels Linnemann), Cambridge Elements in Foundations of Contemporary Physics. Cambridge University Press: UK (2023)
  • “On efforts to decouple early universe cosmology and quantum gravity phenomenology”, Foundations of Physics (2023)
  • “A role for the fauxrizon in the semiclassical limit of a fuzzball”, Philosophy of Science (2023)
  • “Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (2023)
  • “A (strictly) contemporary perspective on trans-Planckian censorship”, Foundations of Physics (2022)
  • “Betting on future physics”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2022)
  • “Better appreciating the scale of it (Lemaître and de Sitter at the BAAS Centenary)” (with co-author Siska De Baerdemaeker), HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (2022)
  • “Trans-Planckian Philosophy of Cosmology”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (2021)

Social Dynamics of Science

  • “Promoting Diverse Collaborations” (with Hannah Rubin and Cailin O’Connor), The Dynamics of Science: Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science, edited by Grant Ramsey and Andreas De Block (2022)
  • “Priority and Privilege in Scientific Discovery” (with Hannah Rubin), Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (2021)
  • “Creativity in the social epistemology of science”, Philosophy of Science (2021)
Areas of Study
Philosophy of Science