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Robinson Erhardt
56 - Kevin Heng: Exoplanetary Atmospheres and The Philosophy of Astrophysics
1 hour 18 minutes Posted Feb 27, 2023 at 4:00 pm.
In This Episode…
Introduction
Kevin’s Background in Astrophysics
How Do Astrophysicists Work?
An Astrophysicist’s Tools in the Search for Exoplanets
False Color Images in Astrophysics
More Methods of Atmospheric Analysis
Kevin’s Research
The Philosophy of Astrophysics Anthology
Philosophy and Scientific Models
An Unsolved Problem Concerning Turbulence
Kevin’s Time in Culinary School
Fashion and Bottega Veneta
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Kevin Heng is Chair Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics of Extrasolar Planets at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Before that, he was the director of the Center for Space and Habitability at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Robinson and Kevin discuss the search for planets outside our solar system and the importance of—as well as some problems surrounding—our investigations into their atmospheres, all before turning to his recent philosophical work. Kevin, along with three philosophers of science—Vera Matarese, Siska de Baerdemaeker, and Nora Boyd—are the editors of an upcoming anthology on the philosophy of astrophysics, for which Kevin composed an essay on the role of models in astrophysics. Kevin is also the author of Exoplanetary Atmospheres: Theoretical Concepts and Foundations, which is part of the Princeton Series in Atmospheres.
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Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between.