My name is Raymond Maung. I am a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
I work in two areas: philosophy of physics and German Idealism, with particular attention to Kant and Hegel.
My goal in the philosophy of physics is to answer the following: How and what do we justifiably know about the world and experience given the empirically successful practices of contemporary physics? To that end, I focus particularly on the philosophy of gauge theory and symmetry.
My goal in the history of philosophy is to better understand Kant and Hegel.
I also have a keen interest in: gender, race, the social structures of science, and the intersection of logic, metaphysics, self-consciousness, and normativity.
I grew up in a suburb of Seattle. I am Burmese.
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