Hello!

I am Valeriya Chasova, and I do research in philosophy and history of physics and mathematics, particularly on the ontology of symmetries.

My primary research bears on philosophy and history of direct and indirect empirical statuses (DES and IES) of theoretical symmetries in physics, i.e. on the relationships of theoretical symmetries with empirical symmetries and with conservation laws, including via Noether’s theorems. Besides, I started to reflect on further topics such as how to determine the authorship of physical theories. More generally I am interested in relativistic and gauge theories in physics and in integrated history and philosophy of science. Previously I studied the meaning and reference of theoretical terms, structural realism, Gettier cases in epistemology and Plato’s metaphysics of numbers.

I have had two Bachelors, two Masters, a PhD, two short postdocs, two semesters of university teaching, and a Junior Research Fellow position in various European countries, in the domains of classical philology, philosophy and history of science, and have followed courses in physics and mathematics. I am affiliated with the Freudenthal Institute of the Utrecht University in the Netherlands. If you need to contact myself, you can write to v.chasova at uu.nl.

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