Davide Romano
Postdoctoral researcher
Institut Néel - CNRS - Université Grenoble alpes
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of physics, metaphysics. epistemology.
Areas of Competence
Philosophy of science, history of physics, history of philosophy.
I am currenly a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut Néel-CNRS at the Université Grenoble Alpes. Before coming to Grenoble, I was a FCT Junior researcher at the Centre of Philosophy at the University of Lisbon (2020-2023), a Ernst Mach postdoctoral fellow at Salzburg University (2018-19), a scientific collaborator (teaching assistant) at the Polytechnic University of Milan and a visiting researcher at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Trieste. I have obtained my PhD in philosophy from the University of Lausanne (2016), with a dissertation on the classical limit in the de Broglie—Bohm theory. My research is in the philosophy and foundations of quantum mechanics. with a special interest in the realistic interpretations of quantum mechanics, the nature of the wave function, decoherence theory and the classical limit of quantum mechanics. I am currently working on the origin of time's arrow and its possible relation with quantum mechanics.
Project: The Emergence of the Classical World from Quantum Mechanics
The project explores different strategies to recover classical mechanics from quantum mechanics in the macroscopic regime.
The classical limit of quantum mechanics can hardly be recovered within the framework of standard quantum mechanics. My view on this problem is resumed in the article: The unreasonable effectiveness of decoherence, published in the book edited by Valia Allori: Quantum Mechanics and Fundamentality, Synthese Library, Springer, 2022.
In the next steps of the project, I will analyze the classical limit within the de Broglie-Bohm, the GRW and the Everett theories.
I am especially interested in the relations between those theories and standard decoherence theory.
What is the wave function: I proposed/rehabilitated the multi-field view in the co-authored paper:
The wave-function as a multi-field, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 8 (3): 521-537, 2018 .[preprint]
An updated view of the multi-field account is published in the paper:
Multi-field and Bohm’s theory, Synthese, 2020. [preprint].