Emma Jaura

Dr Emma Jaura is a postdoctoral researcher on the Quantum Worldviews project at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on metaphysical questions concerning fundamentality, dependence and structure. She works on comparing approaches to these questions from the across Asian philosophical and religious traditions, and from across the physical sciences (especially quantum physics). She is particularly interested in how a picture of ontological interdependence can be supported by realist and anti-realist interpretations of quantum mechanics, and by Buddhist notions of ‘emptiness’.

Prior to embarking on her research at Oxford, Emma was a lecturer on topics in Asian philosophies, including religion, ethics, aesthetics and metaphysics, at Bath Spa University. She convened courses covering philosophical introductions to Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism. Before that, she completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham, working on metaphysical coherentism, Mahayana Buddhist philosophy, and relational quantum mechanics, under the expert supervision of Prof Jonathan Tallant and Dr Stephen Barker. She also received her MA and BA (Hons) from the University of Nottingham.