I am currently an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Purdue University. From 2021 to 2022, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford. I graduated with a Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy program at the University of Notre Dame the year before (where I also completed a master’s in physics). I work primarily on the philosophy of symmetries and quantum mechanics,  but I am also interested in laws of nature and dispositions. My dissertation was on the empirical significance of symmetries. For more on my research, click here.

I am also interested in the history of quantum mechanics. On January 2020, I completed a two-year-long project that involved digitizing all the issues of the journal Epistemological Letters. This is a very significant yet difficult-to-find publication that ran during the 70s, and in it, we can find the very first extensive discussions about the nature of hidden variables in the light of the Bell inequalities (the 2022 Nobel prize in physics went to work sparked precisely by these inequalities). The digitized files can be found here!

Finally, I have side interests in the pedagogy of science. In the summer of 2020, I launched www.studia.app, a website that teaches physics to students in their first year of college and last year of high school (it is free, and thousands of students have used it since its creation!). In December of 2020, I translated “Ruby’s Lab Manual,” a manual designed by Ph.D. Cara Ocobock with science experiments for children ages 5-10, into Spanish. And in 2018, I published Física Paso a Paso,  a physics textbook aimed at helping students transition from high school physics into college physics.

Finally, you might be wondering about the spelling of my name. Like many from Latinoamérica, I have two last names, Murgueitio and Ramírez. So if you ever cite one of my papers, please use both, as I do here (without a hyphen): Murgueitio Ramírez, S.