Topics
- Analogical reasoning and confirmation (1.4, 1.7; 2.1)
- Epistemology of spacetime (1.5, 1.16; EPS preprints below)
- Generative strategies in theory construction (1.4, 2.1)
- Laws of nature (1.20, 1.14, 1.12, 1.8)
- Metaphysical necessity (1.8, 1.12, 1.14)
- Non-empirical confirmation (1.4, 1.7, 1.11)
- Principles in theory construction (1.4, 1.3, 1.10)
- Renormalisability and UV completion (1.2, 1.3)
- Spacetime emergence (1.4, 1.6, 1.9; 3.1)
- Spacetime functionalism (1.9; 3.1)
- Superluminal signal propagation (1.16)
- Symmetries and conservation laws (1.8; 2.2)
- Toy models (1.1)
- Quantum Gravity phenomenology (0.1, 1.7)
Numbers in parentheses refer to articles listed below. For citing articles, see my google research profile.
Publications
(0) Books
0.1 Huggett, Nick; Linnemann, Niels & Schneider, Mike: Quantum Gravity in a Laboratory? Cambridge Elements. (2023). Preprint.
(1) In peer-reviewed journals
1.20 Hirèche, Salim; Linnemann, Niels; & Michels, Robert: Are All Laws of Nature Created Equal? Meta-laws Versus More Necessary Laws. Erkenntnis (2023). Link to paper (open access).
1.19 Linnemann, Niels; Smeenk, Chris & Baker, Mark Robert: GR as a classical spin-2 theory? Philosophy of Science (PSA proceedings 2022). (2023). Preprint.
1.18 Dewar, Neil; Linnemann, Niels; Read, James: The epistemology of spacetime. Philosophy Compass (2022). Link to paper (open access).
1.17 Linnemann, Niels: Quantisation as a method of generation: the nature and prospects of theory changes through quantisation. Studies of History and Philosophy of Science (2022). Link to paper.
1.16 Linnemann, Niels; Read, James: Comment on `Do eletromagnetic waves move along null geodesics?‘. Classical and Quantum Gravity (2022). Preprint.
1.15 Linnemann, Read: Miracles persist – A reply to Sus. European Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2021). Link to paper (open access).
1.14 Hirèche, Salim; Linnemann, Niels; Michels, Robert & Vogt, Lisa: The Strong Arm of the Law. A Unified Account of Necessary and Contingent Laws of Nature. Synthese (2021). Link to paper (open access).
1.13 Linnemann, Niels; Read, James: On the status of Newtonian gravitational radiation. Foundations of Physics (2021). Link to paper (open access).
1.12 Hirèche, Salim; Linnemann, Niels; Michels, Robert & Vogt, Lisa: The modal status of the laws of nature. Tahko’s hybrid view and the kinematical/dynamical distinction. European Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2021). Link to paper (open access).
1.11 Linnemann, Niels: Non-empirical robustness arguments in quantum gravity. Studies of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (2020). Link to paper (open access).
1.10 Jaksland, Rasmus & Linnemann, Niels: Holography without holography: How to turn inter-representational into intra-representational relations in AdS/CFT. Studies of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (2020). Link to paper (open access).
1.9 Linnemann, Niels: On the empirical coherence and the spatiotemporal gap problem in quantum gravity — and why functionalism does not (have to) help. Synthese: SI Spacetime Functionalism (2020). Link to paper (open access).
1.8 Linnemann, Niels: On metaphysically necessary laws from physics. European Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2020). Link to paper (open access).
1.7 Crowther, Karen; Linnemann, Niels & Wüthrich, Christian: What we cannot learn from analogue experiments. Synthese: Special Issue: Reasoning in Physics (2019). Preprint.
1.6 Le Bihan, Baptiste & Linnemann, Niels: Have We Lost Spacetime on the Way? Narrowing the Gap Between General Relativity and Quantum Gravity. Studies of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (2019). Preprint.
1.5 Menon, Tushar; Linnemann, Niels & Read, James: Clocks and Chronogeometry: Rotating spacetimes and the relativistic null hypothesis. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2018). Preprint.
1.4 Linnemann, Niels & Visser, Manus: Hints toward the emergent nature of gravity. Studies of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (2018). Preprint.
1.3 Doboszewski, Juliusz & Linnemann, Niels: How not to establish the non-renormalizability of gravity. Foundations of Physics (2017): 1-16. Preprint.
1.2 Crowther, Karen & Linnemann, Niels: Renormalizability, fundamentality, and a final theory: The role of UV-completion in the search for quantum gravity. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2017). Preprint.
1.1 Irbäck, Anders; Jonsson, Sigurdur; Linnemann, Niels; Linse, Björn; Wallin, Stefan: Aggregate geometry in amyloid fibril nucleation. Physical Review Letters (2013). Paper.
(2) In edited volumes
2.2 Baker, Mark; Linnemann, Niels and Smeenk, Chris: Noether’s first theorem and the energy-momentum tensor ambiguity problem, in: Teh, Nicholas; Read, James and Roberts, Bryan, editors: The Physics and Philosophy of Noether’s Theorems. Cambridge University Press. (2022). Preprint.
2.1 Linnemann, Niels: Interpretations of GR as guidelines for theory change, in Beisbart, Claus; Sauer, Tilman Sauer; Wüthrich, Christian; editors: Thinking About Space and Time: 100 Years of Applying and Interpreting General Relativity. Birkhäuser (Basel) (2020). Preprint.
(3) Edited issues
3.1 Crowther, Karen, Linnemann, Niels, & Wüthrich, Christian, editors: Special Issue on Spacetime Functionalism (Synthese). Springer (2021). Introduction (open access).
(4) Invited Reviews
4.1 Linnemann, Niels: Book review of Andreas Bartels’ `Wissenschaft’ (De Gruyter, 2021). Journal for General Philosophy of Science (2023).
Relevant preprints
On the local validity of SR in GR (with James Read and Nicholas Teh): https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01534
On EPS (with Emily Adlam and James Read): https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.14063, https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05672, https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07249
On pregeometry (with Kian Salimkhani): http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/20035/1/Linnemann-Salimkhani-Pregeometry.pdf
Selected Talks
9/2023 Invited talk: Can AI help Humeans? The laws of nature debate in light of automated scientific discovery (joint work with Robert Michels) (HPS Seminar, University of Copenhagen)
7/2023 Invited talk: The local validity of special relativity from an EFT-inspired perspective (joint work with James Read and Nicholas Teh) (Workshop on Foundations of Physics, University of Oxford).
7/2023 Contributed talk: What makes black hole models physically reasonable? (joint work with Yichen Luo and Chris Smeenk) (Foundations of Physics, Bristol).
6/2023 Invited talk: The problem of pregeometry and selective realism (together with Kian Salimkhani) (CPS, University of Oslo).
3/2023 Invited talk: General relativity as a classical spin-2 theory? (Oxford Philosophy of Physics Seminar). Click here for the video.
Talk at Oxford (joint work with Chris Smeenk and Mark Baker)
11/2022 Contributed talk: General relativity as a classical spin-2 theory? (Philosophy of Science Association conference 2022 in Pittsburgh)
9/2022 Invited talk: Constructivist approaches to the epistemology of spacetime (Philosophy of Scientific Thought Initiative at the University of Notre Dame).
6/2022 Invited panelist: Discussion on “Beyond the empirical” with Enno Fischer and Kian Salimkhani at the History, Philosophy & Sociology of Cosmology & Astroparticle Physics Conference in Bonn.
6/2022 Contributed talk: A new metaphysics of spacetime at the 1st Bremen-Cologne-Workshop on Time in Cologne.
6/2022 Invited talk: Metaphysics of spacetime, and the role of spacetime functionalism at the Metaphysics Beyond Spacetime conference in Ovronnaz.
4/2022 Invited talk: On the philosophy of chaos theory. In honor of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Erwin Kreuzer’s life work, an expert on chaos theory and former president of the Hamburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, at the Hamburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
4/2022 Invited panelist: Discussion on “Analogue confirmation” with Radin Dardashti and Grace Field at the Bonn HPP Research Seminar in Bonn.
9/2021 Contributed talk: Are there no grand problems of spacetime emergence? (EPSA 2021, symposium contribution, Turin)
9/2020 Contributed talk: Sensible metaphysics without a final physical theory, joint talk with Niels Martens (ERC metascience project workshop, Bristol)
8/2020 Contributed talk: The modal status of the laws of nature. Tahko’s hybrid view and the kinematical/dynamical distinction, joint pre-recorded talk with Salim Hireche, Robert Michels and Lisa Vogt (ECAP10, Utrecht (online))
6/2020 Invited talk: Philosophy of Quantum Gravity as a Philosophy of Generation (Oxford Philosophy of Physics Seminar)
3/2020 Invited talk: Metaphysically Necessary Laws in Physics (ERC-FraMEPhys project, Birmingham)
9/2019 Contributed talk: Quantisation as a method of discovery: the nature and prospects of quantisation approaches to quantum gravity (EPSA 2019, Geneva)
7/2019 Contributed talk: Quantisation as a method of discovery (BSPS 2019, Durham)
4/2019 Invited talk: On Metaphysically Necessary Laws in Physics (DFG Inductive Metaphysics workshop on Counterpossibles, Counternomics and Causal Theories of Properties, Cologne)
2/2019 Contributed talk: On Metaphysically Necessary Laws in Physics (German Society for Philosophy of Science, Cologne)
9/2018 Contributed talk: Does GR need an interpretation? (Swiss Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science: Annual Meeting 2018, Lugano)
3/2018 Contributed talk: Have We Lost Spacetime on the Way? Narrowing the Gap Between General Relativity and Quantum Gravity, joint work with Baptiste Le Bihan (DPG Frühjahrstagung, Berlin)
9/2017 Contributed talk: Quo vadis GR? Indications for an Emergent Nature of GR, together with Manus Visser (Thinking about Space and Time: 100 Years of Applying and Interpreting General Relativity, Bern)
9/2017 Contributed talk: Why the Metric Field and Its Dynamics Should Be Emergent, joint work with Manus Visser (EPSA 2017, Exeter)
8/2017 Contributed talk: On principles of theory construction and justification in quantum gravity, joint work with Karen Crowther (ECAP 9, LMU Munich)
7/2017 Contributed talk: The role of UV completion in the search for quantum gravity, together with Karen Crowther (BSPS 2017, Edinburgh)
2/2017 Contributed talk: How not to establish the non-renormalizability of gravity, poster presentation (Quantum Spacetime and the Renormalization Group conference, Lorentz Center, Leiden)
12/2016 Contributed talk: On principles of theory construction and justification in quantum gravity, together with Karen Crowther (Reasoning in Physics Workshop, Center for Advanced Studies, Munich)
6/2016 Student talk: The Renormalizability of Gravity, joint work with Juliuz Doboszewski (International Summer Institute in Philosophy of Physics, Williamsbay, Wisconsin)
5/2016 Contributed talk: The Renormalizability of Gravity, together with Juliuz Doboszewski (Philosophy of Physics Workshop, University of Bern)
11/2015 Contributed talk: Emergent Gravity vs. Quantum General Relativity? (Philosophy of Physics graduate seminar, University of Oxford)