My name is Raymond Maung. I am a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
I work in two areas: philosophy of physics and German Idealism, with particular attention to Kant and Hegel.
My goal in the philosophy of physics is to answer the following: How and what do we justifiably know about the world and experience given the empirically successful practices of contemporary physics? To that end, I focus particularly on symmetry and its use in reasoning in the context of both classical and quantum gauge theories.
My goal in the history of philosophy is to better understand Kant and Hegel; I think they were on to something.
I also have a keen interest in: gender, race, the social structures of science, and the intersection of logic, metaphysics, self-consciousness, and normativity. Lately, I’ve been thinking about philosophy, science, and research in the age of compelling auto text (aka AI).
I grew up in the suburbs of Seattle. I am Burmese.