Publications – Valia Allori

Books

“On Quantum Things: A Constructive Guide to the Fundamentals of Quantum Theory” Bloomsbury (2026). ISBN: 9781498581684
“La Natura delle Cose: Introduzione ai Fondamenti e alla Filosofia della Fisica” (transl.: “The Nature of Things: Introduction to the Philosophy and the Foundation of Physics”) – with M. Dorato, F. Laudisa, N. Zanghi. Carocci ed. (2005). ISBN: 9788843094745
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Edited Books

“Quantum Mechanics and Fundamentality: Naturalizing Quantum Theory between Scientific Realism and Ontological Indeterminacy.” Synthese Library (August 2022) ISBN: 9783030996444 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99642-0
“Statistical Mechanics and Scientific Explanation: Determinism, Indeterminism, and Laws of Nature,” World Scientific (May 2020) ISBN: 9789811211737 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/11591
“Do Wave Functions Jump? Perspectives on the Work of GianCarlo Ghirardi” with Angelo Bassi, Detlef Dürr and Nino Zanghì). Springer (November 2020) ISBN:9783030467791 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46777-7

Articles and Book Chapters

The links are to the pre-prints.

“Mind, Matter, and Freedom in Quantum Mechanics and the de Broglie-Bohm Theory” – with Jean Bricmont
“Functionalism, Vagueness, Reduction and the Quantum: The Case of Everettian Mechanics”
“A Philosopher Looks at Spontaneous Localization Theories” In: R. Arroyo & J. R.B. Arenhart (eds., trans.) Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics Compendium. Coleção CLE (forthcoming)
“On Quantum Mechanics and the Pilot-Wave Theory: Empirical Equivalence and Other Objections” Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 62 (4): 133-150 (2025)
“A Minimal Metaphysics of Thin-Objects and Nomic Structure” Synthese 206: 86 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-025-05154-9
“Time for Pancakes.” In: O. Lombardi and C. Lopez (eds). The Arrow of Time: From Closed Systems to the Whole Universe. Cambridge University Press (2025). ISBN: 9781009581608
“Quantum Mechanics.” In: F. Padovani, A. Tuboly (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science. Routledge (2025). ISBN: 9781032463056
“Time in Quantum Mechanics” In: N. Emery (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time. Routledge (2025). ISBN: 9781032801315
“Quantum Ontology and Intuitions.” European Journal for the Philosophy of Science 4, 31 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-024-00595-4
“Hidden Variables and Bell’s Theorem: Local or Not?” Theoria: An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science 39 (2): 143-163 (2024) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.24617
“Relativistic Pilot-Wave Theories as the Rational Completion of Quantum Mechanics and Relativity.” In: A. Oldofredi (ed.) Guiding Waves in Quantum Mechanics: 100 Years of de Broglie-Bohm Theory. Oxford University Press (2024). ISBN: 9780198901853
What if We Lived in the Best of All Possible (Quantum) Worlds? In: P. Castro, J. W. M. Bush and J. R. Croca (eds.) Advances in Pilot Wave Theory – From Experiments to Foundations. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Springer. (2024). ISBN: 978-3-031-49860-2.
“Who’s Afraid of the Measurement Problem? On the Incompatibility between Scientific Realism and Quantum Mechanics” In: A. Bassi, S. Goldstein, R. Tumulka and N. Zanghì (eds.) Physics and the Nature of Reality: Essays in Memory of Detlef Dürr: 393-409 Springer (2024). ISBN 978-3-031-45433-2 (Note: the pre-print linked above is a longer version of the one appearing in the volume)
“Fundamental Objects without Fundamental Properties: a Thin-object-orientated Metaphysics Grounded on Structure.” In: D. Aerts, J. Arenhart, C. De Ronde and G. Sergioli (eds.), Probing the Meaning and Structure of Quantum Mechanics. Probability, Metaphysics, Explanation and Measurement. World Scientific: 138–167 (2023). ISBN: 78-981-12-8359-8. doi:10.1142/9789811283598_0005
“Many-Worlds: Why is it not the Consens us?” Quantum Reports 5 (1): 80-101 (2023). DOI:10.3390/quantum5010007
“On the Galilei Invariance of the Pilot-Wave Theory.” Foundations of Physics 52, 111 (2022). DOI: 10.1007/s10701-022-00631-4
“What is it Like to be a Relativistic GRW Theory? Or: Quantum Mechanics and Relativity, Still in Conflict After All These Years” Foundations of Physics 52, 79 (2022). DOI: 10.1007/s10701-022-00595-5
“Introduction” In V. Allori (ed.) “Quantum Mechanics and Fundamentality: Naturalizing Quantum Theory between Scientific Realism and Ontological Indeterminacy:” i-xxi. Springer: Synthese Libary (2022). ISBN: 978-3-030-99642-0
“Towards a Structuralist Elimination of Properties”. In V. Allori (ed.) “Quantum Mechanics and Fundamentality: Naturalizing Quantum Theory between Scientific Realism and Ontological Indeterminacy:” 141-155. Springer: Synthese Libary (2022). ISBN: 978-3-030-99642-0
“The Paradox of Deterministic Probabilities.” Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 67(10): 3750–3769. DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2022.2065530
“Spontaneous Localization Theories.” In: O. Freire Junior, G. Bacciagaluppi, O. Darrigol, T. Hartz, C. Joas, A. Kojevnikov, and O. Pessoa Junior (eds), Oxford Handbook on the History of Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics. Oxford University Press (2022). ISBN: 978-0-198-84449-5
“Wave-Functionalism,” Synthese 199: 12271–12293 (2021). DOI: 10.1007/s11229-021-03332-z
“Primitive Beable is not Local Ontology: On the Relation between Primitive Ontology and Local Beables.” Crítica 53 (159): 15-43 (2021). DOI:10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2021.1292
“Contemporary Echoes of the World Soul: Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness” In: J. Wilberdin (ed.), World Soul: 320-342. Oxford University Press (2021). ISBN: 9780190913441
“Tipicità e Spiegazione Scientifica in Meccanica Statistica.” In: E. Montuschi and P. D. Omodeo (eds.), Ordinare il mondo. Prospettive logiche ed epistemologiche su scienza, natura e società: 146-172. Armando ed. (2020). ISBN: 978-88-6992-679-2
“Introduction” E. Schrödinger, Collected Papers on Wave Mechanics. Minkowski Institute Press (2020).
“Spontaneous Localization Theories with a Particle Ontology” In: V. Allori, A. Bassi, D, Dürr and N. Zanghì (eds.), Do Wave Functions Jump? Perspectives on the Work of GianCarlo Ghirardi: 73-93. Springer (2020). ISBN: 978-3-030-46777-7
“Why Scientific Realists Should Reject the Second Dogma of Quantum Mechanics.” In: M. Hemmo and O. Shenker (eds.) Quantum, Probability, Logic: the Work and Inlfuence of Itamar Pitowsky: 19-48. Springer (2020). ISBN: 978-3-030-34316-3
“Some Reflections on the Statistical Postulate: Typicality, Probability and Explanation between Deterministic and Indeterministic Theories.” In: V. Allori (ed.), Statistical Mechanics and Scientific Explanation: Determinism, Indeterminism, and Laws of Nature: 65-111. World Scientific (2020). ISBN: 978-981-121-172-0
“Free Will in a Quantum World?” In: A. de Barros and C. Montemayor (eds.) Quanta and Mind: Essays on the Connection between Quantum Mechanics and the Consciousness: 3-16. Springer – Synthese Library 414 (2019). ISBN: 978-3-030-21908-6
“Quantum Mechanics, Time and Ontology” Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 66: 145-154 (2019) . DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2019.02.004
“From No-signaling to Spontaneous Localization Theories”. International Journal of Quantum Foundations 5 1–10 (2019).
“Scientific Realism without the Wave-Function” In: J. Saatsi, S. French (eds.) Scientific Realism and the Quantum: 212-228. Oxford University Press (2019). ISBN: 9780198814979
“Primitive Ontology and Scientific Realism. Or: The Pessimistic Meta-Induction and the Nature of the Wave Function.” Lato Sensu: Revue de la Société de Philosophie des Sciences 5 (1): 69-76 (2018). DOI: 10.20416/lsrsps.v5i1.10
“A New Argument for the Nomological Interpretation of the Wave Function: The Galilean Group and the Classical Limit of Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics.” International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 31 (2): 177-188 (2018). DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2018.1424759
“Space,Time, and (how they) Matter: a Discussion about some Metaphysical Insights Provided by our Best Fundamental Physical Theories.” In: S. Wuppuluri, G.C. Ghirardi (eds.), Space, Time, and Frontiers of Human Understanding: 95-107. Springer (2016). ISBN:978-3-319-44418-5
“Primitive Ontology and the Classical World.” In: R. Kastner, J. Jeknic-Dugic, G. Jaroszkiewicz (eds.), Quantum Structural Studies: Classical Emergence from the Quantum Level: 175-199. World Scientific (2016). ASIN:‎ B0788YKWN5
“Primitive Ontology in a Nutshell.” International Journal of Quantum Foundations 1 (3): 107-122 (2015).
Reply to Authors: “The Road to Maxwell’s Demon,” by Meir Hemmo and Orly R. Shenker. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 29 (1): 94-98 (2015).
“Maxwell’s Paradox: Classical Electrodynamics and its Time Reversal Invariance.” Analytica 1:1-19 (2015).
“Quantum Mechanics and Paradigm Shifts.” Topoi 32 (2): 313-323 (2015). DOI: 10.1007/s11245-014-9295-y
“Predictions and Primitive Ontology in Quantum Foundations: A Study of Examples.” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 65 (2): 323-352 (2014) – (with S. Goldstein, R. Tumulka, and N. Zanghi). DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axs048
“On the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics.” In: S. Lebihan (ed.), Precis de la Philosophie de la Physique: 116-151. Vuibert (2013). ISBN: 978-2-311-01100-5
“Primitive Ontology and the Structure of Fundamental Physical Theories.” In: D. Albert, A. Ney (eds.), The Wave Function: Essays in the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics: 58-75. Oxford University Press (2013). ISBN: 9780199790807
“Many-Worlds and Schrödinger’s First Quantum Theory.” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 62 (1), 1–27 (2011) – (with S. Goldstein, R. Tumulka, and N. Zanghi). DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axp053
“La storia del gatto che era sia vivo che morto” (transl: ”The Story of the Cat that was both Dead and Alive”). In: E. Giannetto, G. Giannini (eds.), Da Archimede a Majorana: la fisica nel suo divenire: 273-283. Guaraldi (2009). EAN: 9788880493495
“On the Classical Limit of Quantum Mechanics.” Foundations of Physics 39 (1): 20-32 (2009) – (with N. Zanghi). DOI: 10.1007/s10701-008-9259-4
“On the Common Structure of Bohmian Mechanics and the Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber Theory.” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 59 (3): 353-389 (2008) – (with S. Goldstein, R. Tumulka, and N. Zanghi). DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axn012
“Ontologie Quantistiche di Particelle, Campi e Lampi” (transl.: “Quantum Ontologies of Particles, Fields and Flashes”). In: V. Fano and M. Antonelli (eds.), “Strutture dello spazio tra fisica e psicologia,” Teorie e Modelli XII, III: 9-29 (2007) – (with N. Zanghi).
“E’ completa la descrizione della realta’ fisica fornita dalla meccanica quantistica?” (transl.: “Is the Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Complete?”) Il Protagora 9: 163-180 (2007) – (with N. Zanghi).
“What is Bohmian Mechanics.” International Journal of Theoretical Physics 43: 1743-1755 (2004) – (with N. Zanghi). DOI: 10.1023/B:IJTP.0000048817.79384.2a
“Seven Steps Toward the Classical World.” Journal of Optics B 4: 482–488 (2002) – (with D. Dürr, S. Goldstein, N. Zanghi).

Book Reviews

Book Review of “Philosophy of Physics – Quantum Theory,” by Tim Maudlin. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Review of Books (2020).
“Beyond or Above? The Adynamical Explanation Meets Ontological Contextuality without a Fundamental Level”. Book Review of “Beyond the Dynamical Universe,” by Michael Silberstein, William Mark Stuckey and Timothy McDewitt. Metascience 28(2): 341–344 (2019).
Book Review of “Quantum Ontology,” by Peter Lewis. Philosophy of Science 85 (4): 735-738 (2018).
Book Review of “Protective Measurement and Quantum Reality,” by Shan Gao (ed.). The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Review of Books (2017).
Book Review of “The Road to Maxwell’s Demon: Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Mechanics ,” by Meir Hemmo and Orly R. Shenker. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 27 (4): 451-454 (2013).
Book Review of “Do We Really Understand Quantum Mechanics ?” by Franck Laloë; Notre Dame Philosophical Review (2013).
Book Review of “Everywhere and Everywhen, Adventures in Physics and Philosophy,” by Nick Huggett; Notre Dame Philosophical Review (2011).
Book Review of “Quantum Mechanics- a Philosopher’s Overview,” by Salvator Cannavo; International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 24 (3), 330-333 (2010).
Book review of “The Kantian legacy in the Nineteenth -Century Science,” Michael Friedman, and Alfred Nordmann (eds.); Journal of the History of Philosophy 47 (3), 478-479 (2009).