Patrick Shields
HPS Graduate Student
Program: History and Philosophy of Science
Track: Philosophy
Education: B.S., M.S. in Physics and M.Ed., University of Notre Dame
Year of Matriculation: 2020
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the History and Philosophy of Science program. My research deals with questions of modeling and idealization in the philosophy of science, and particularly the connection between idealization and scale-based modeling techniques in contemporary physics. I also have interests in the philosophy of AI, especially in the relationship between deep learning algorithms and scale-based methods in physics.
Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of AI, Logic