Elay Shech is interested in philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and history of philosophy, as well as issues in biomedical and environmental ethics. His work primarily concerns the nature and role of idealizations and representations in the sciences and, more specifically, in condensed matter physics.
Research Interests
- philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, biomedical ethics, environmental ethics
My research interests include general philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, philosophy of mathematics and statistics, philosophy of biology, and philosophy of artificial intelligence and machine learning. I also have a budding interest in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, and especially Buddhist and Chinese philosophy.
Current Projects Research:
- Idealizations in Science: Exploration, Understanding, and Confirmation.
- Philosophy of Biology and Mitonuclear Ecology: Evolutionary Fitness and Species Concepts
- Philosophy of Machine Learning: Artificial Understanding, Modeling, and Inference
- Metaphysics of Color and Objectivism
- Epistemology of Science: The Material Theory of Induction & Consequences
- Science and Art: Representation, Fictions, and the Imagination
