LUCY MASON

I am a postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh working on ideas relating to how the 1st person embedded perspective appears in physics and how it influences the interpretation of theories. In particular I am looking at how it relates to understanding measurement and inter-theoretic relations of emergence and reduction.  

Prior to this I was a postdoc at Royal Holloway working as part of the project 'What is metrology if quantum measurements participate in making reality' (more details on this project here), applying these ideas to measurement in quantum mechanics. And before that I did my PhD at King's College London focusing on how perspectives, observation, and emergence help us understand the metaphysics of time.

In addition to my main areas of research I also run a Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality reading group and am interested in looking at how feminist ideas can inform our understanding of perspectives in science. Additionally, I am very interested in environmental philosophy and how our relationship with nature (both scientific, cultural, and personal) forms the underpinnings of our legal and economic society. I have written a blog post about this here.

My pronouns are she/her.