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Urs Schreiber
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I am a research scientist in the Center for Quantum and Topological Systems (https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/CQTS) at New York University in Abu Dhabi. My degree is in theoretical physics.

My work is about mathematical structures motivated from quantum field theory and string theory. For more see http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Urs+Schreiber

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Have professional philosophers contributed to other fields in the last 20 years?
Feb 10, 2014
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What is the relation between proof in mathematics and observation in physics?
Dec 23, 2015
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Do some continental philosophers deliberately obfuscate their writing? Why?
Jan 18, 2015
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Why are physicists debating the "multiverse" so detached from professional philosophy?
Mar 24, 2014
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Theories of Everything as a hold over from monotheism?
Apr 23, 2015
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Has Witten written about the philosophy of exceptional nature?
Aug 2, 2015
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Why is Russell so critical of Aristotle?
Apr 16, 2015
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How can we justify the use of logic?
Mar 3, 2015
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Plato's Ideas and Hegel's Idea
Feb 17, 2015
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The unity of opposites of the real and the ideal
Jan 7, 2015
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Intuitively, why are bundles so important in Physics?
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"Philosophical" meaning of the Yoneda Lemma
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Why quantum mechanics?
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What is a cohomology theory (seriously)?
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Lawvere's "Some thoughts on the future of category theory."

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