My name is Raymond Maung. I am a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
I mostly work in two areas: philosophy of physics and German Idealism, with special attention to Kant and Hegel.
My work in the philosophy of physics roughly tries to answer: what do we justifiably know about the world given the empirically successful practices of contemporary physics? To that end, I focus particularly on the philosophy of gauge theory and symmetry.
One part of my historical work is to understand Kant and, especially, Hegel. I am especially interested in how the German Idealists responded to their changing scientific climate, largely a result of the Newtonian program’s inability to account for the then burgeoning study of electrical and chemical phenomena in the Romantic age of science.
Another part is trying to move past those two figures by considering their thought in relation to cases of interest. For me those include gender, race, the social structures of science, and the intersection of logic, metaphysics, self-consciousness, and normativity.
I grew up in a suburb of Seattle. I am Burmese.
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