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Alyssa Ney

Disciplines:
metaphysics
philosophy of science/philosophy of physics

Summary

American philosopher working on fundamentality, the wave function as a physical ontology, and the philosophy of physics.

Core Contribution

Wave Function Realism: the wave function of quantum mechanics is a real physical field in 3N-dimensional configuration space, and the 3-dimensional world of ordinary experience is emergent. Contributed to the metaphysics of fundamentality.

Notable Works & Achievements

The World in the Wave Function

Historical Influences

David Albert Barry Loewer

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Metaphysics Philosophy of Physics

Contemporaries & Peers

David Albert

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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