Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Miguel Ohnesorge is a philosopher of science and a historian of science and philosophy. He is broadly interested in the concepts and methods that feature in successful science – e.g., measurement, evidence, probability, and so forth. Much of his work is historical in method. His monograph Newton’s Open Problem (under contract at Oxford UP) tells the story of how we came to conceive of gravitational force as a universal and basic constituent of the physical world. Miguel also researches the history and philosophy of measurement across the sciences, especially measures that aim to quantify very complex and socially consequential phenomena as they are studied in the earth, environmental, and social sciences.
Before joining BU, Miguel was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the British Academy, based at the University of Cambridge. He completed his MPhil and PhD in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.
Miguel is a co-founder of the Boston Network for the History and Philosophy of Physics, a faculty member of the phi-geo research group, and currently serves on the governing board of the Society for the Study of Measurement.
For more detailed information and a (reasonably) recent CV, please visit his personal website at mohnesorgehps.com.