Sebastian Murgueitio Ramirez

Promoted to Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
smurguei@purdue.edu

Sebastian Murgueitio Ramirez holds a PhD in the history and philosophy of science, and a master’s in physics from the University of Notre Dame. He received both a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and a Bachelor of Science in physics from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). From 2021 to 2022, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford.

Murgueitio Ramirez works primarily on the philosophy of symmetries and quantum mechanics and the metaphysics of laws of nature. His dissertation was on the empirical significance of symmetries, and his work has appeared in journals such as The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics and The Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

He is also interested in the history of quantum mechanics. In January 2020, he completed a two-year project that involved digitizing all the issues of the journal Epistemological Letters, a significant yet obscure publication that ran in the 1970s wherein the first extensive discussions about the nature of hidden variable in the light of the Bell inequalities can be found. In the summer of 2020, his side interests in the pedagogy of science yielded the publication of a free resource used by thousands of students since its publication: a website that teaches physics to students in their first year of college and last year of high school (www.studia.app).