Lyne Starling Trimble Public Event Series
Title and abstract coming soon
Elise Crull, Associate Professor of Philosophy, City College of New York
Friday, March 20, 2026
5:45pm, Reception
6:30pm, Lecture and Q&A
American Center for Physics
555 12th Street NW, Suite 250
Washington, DC 20004
Speaker biography
In addition to history and philosophy of science, Elise Crull frequently ponders (sometimes aloud in front of audiences) philosophical problems associated with quantum theory: the quantum-to-classical transition, quantizing gravity, understanding quantum causal models, the metaphysical nature of entanglement (including temporal entanglement!) and, as of late, interpreting the alternate quantum formalisms used in quantum computing. She also has the occasional thought about quantum cosmology. While these questions keep her in conversation with physicists, Crull also loves a good metaphysics chin-wag. Topics of special interest there include ontology, meta-ontology, and mereology. Since her research interests are fundamentally interdisciplinary, she often finds herself engaging with related “meta” issues, such as the ethics of emergent techno-science, science in the public sphere/ in education, and the nature of the science-theology-philosophy triad.
With Guido Bacciagaluppi, in 2024 Crull published The Einstein Paradox: The Debate on Nonlocality and Incompleteness in 1935. She is publishing God and the Problem of Quantum Physics in Cambridge University Press’s “Elements” series. She also wrote the chapter on Hertha Sponer in last year’s volume Women in the History of Quantum Physics: Beyond Knabenphysik and edited Grete Hermann: Between Physics and Philosophy, which appeared in 2017.