Nearly a century after the development of quantum theories, a consensus has yet to emerge about what these theories tell us about ourselves and our place in the universe. In The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics (Oxford University Press, April 2021), philosophy professor Alyssa Ney develops a framework initially suggested by Schrödinger — that we, and all objects, are ultimately constituted out of the wave function, and that quantum worlds consist of many more than three dimensions.

Alyssa Ney joined the UC Davis Department of Philosophy in 2015. Prior to that, she taught at the University of Rochester for 10 years. She works primarily in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of physics. She is the author of The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics (Oxford, 2021), Metaphysics: An Introduction (Routledge, 2014, Second Edition 2023), and co-editor with David Z Albert of The Wave Function: Essays on the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics (Oxford, 2013).

Professor Ney’s research focuses primarily on fundamentality, the interpretation of quantum theories, and the unity of science.

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