Valia Allori (NHC Fellow, 2017–18)

Fellowship Work Summary, 2017–18

Valia Allori completed the majority of her book, Dismantling Quantum Paradoxes. She also began work on an edited volume, Statistical Mechanics and Scientific Explanation: Determinism, Indeterminism and Laws of Nature, to be published by World Scientific in 2019. She also worked on "A New Argument for the Nomological Interpretation of the Wave Function: The Galilean Group and the Classical Limit of Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics" for International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (vol. 31, no. 2, 2018); "Free Will in a Quantum World?" in Quanta and Mind: Essays on the Connection  between Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness, edited by J. A. de Barros and C. Montemayor (Synthese Library); "Scientific Realism and Primitive Ontology. Or: The Pessimistic Induction and the Nature of the Wave Function" for Lato Sensu: Revue de la Societe de Philosophic des Sciences (vol. 5, no. 1); and "An Example of Naturalized Quantum Metaphysics: Scientific Realism without the Wave Function" for Scientific Realism and the Quantum, edited by J. Saatsi and S. French (Oxford University Press). She also has two works in progress: "Quantum Mechanics, Time and Ontology" and "The Wave Function is What the Wave Function Does."