Alyssa Ney, Professor of Philosophy, LMU Munich

New work in progress

"Is the Universe Fundamentally a Density Matrix?" with Saakshi Dulani.

"Wave Function Realism," to appear in Compêndio de Filosofia da Física Quântica, edited by R. Arroyo.

"Branching (Almost) Everywhere and All At Once," to appear in Everett and Locality, Oxford University Press.

Publications (cv)(philpapers)

Books

• Everett and Locality. edited volume. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

• The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics. Oxford University Press, 2021.

  • Reviewed in [Philosophical Review] by David Wallace, [Mind] by James Read, [Philosophy of Science] by Mario Hubert, and [Analysis] by Tim Maudlin.

• Metaphysics: An Introduction. Second Edition. Routledge, 2023 (First Edition 2014).

  • Second Edition reviewed in [Teaching Philosophy] by Jeremiah Joven Joachin and Roshan Uttamachandani.

• The Wave Function: Essays in the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics. co-edited with David Z Albert. Oxford University Press, 2013.

  • Reviewed in [NDPR] by Jeff Barrett, [Philosophy of Science] by Craig Callender, and [Metascience] by Decio Krause.

Selected Articles

• "The Argument from Locality for Many Worlds Quantum Mechanics," Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming.

• "Three Arguments for Wave Function Realism," European Journal for the Philosophy of Science, forthcoming.

• "From Quantum Entanglement to Spatiotemporal Distance," Philosophy Beyond Spacetime, Oxford University Press, 2021.

• "The Fundamentality of Physics: Completeness or Maximality?" Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Vol.12, 2020.

• "Mind,"Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding, Routledge, 2020.

• "Are the Questions of Metaphysics More Fundamental Than Those of Science?" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2020.

• "Separability, Locality, and Higher Dimensions in Quantum Mechanics," Current Controversies in Philosophy of Science, Routledge, 2020.

• "Finding the World in the Wave Function: Some Strategies for Solving the Macro-object Problem," Synthese, 2020.

• "Wave Function Realism in a Relativistic Setting," The Foundation of Reality, Oxford University Press, 2020.

• "On Phenomenal Functionalism about the Properties of Virtual and Non-virtual Objects," Disputatio, 2019.

• "The Politics of Fundamentality," What is Fundamental? Springer, 2019.

• "Locality and Wave Function Realism," Quantum Worlds, Cambridge University Press, 2019.

• "Physicalism, Not Scientism," in Scientism: Prospects and Problems, Oxford University Press, 2018.

• "Microphysical Causation and the Case for Physicalism," Analytic Philosophy, 2016.

• "Grounding in the Philosophy of Mind: A Defense," in Scientific Composition and Metaphysical Ground, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

• "Fundamental Physical Ontologies and the Constraint of Empirical Coherence," Synthese, 2015.

• "A Physicalist Critique of Russellian Monism," in Consciousness in the Physical World, Oxford University Press, 2015.

• "Does An Adequate Physical Theory Demand a Primitive Ontology?" with Kathryn Phillips. Philosophy of Science, 2013.

• "The Causal Contribution of Mental Events," in New Perspectives on Type Identity, Cambridge University Press, 2012.

• "The Status of Our Ordinary Three Dimensions in a Quantum Universe." Nous, 2012.

• "Neo-Positivist Metaphysics." Philosophical Studies. 2012.

• "Physical Causation and Difference-making." British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2009.

• "Defining Physicalism," Philosophy Compass, 2008.

• "Physicalism as an Attitude," Philosophical Studies, 2008.

• "Can An Appeal to Constitution Solve the Exclusion Problem?" Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2007.

• "Physicalism and Our Knowledge of Intrinsic Properties," Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2007.