Talks – Valia Allori

Conferences, Workshops and Talks

“What is it Like to be a Relativistic GRW Theory? Or: Quantum Mechanics and Relativity, Still in Conflict After All These Years” Philosophy of Spontaneous Collapse. Universita’ della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland. May 20-21, 2024.
“Who should and should not care about the measurement probem”. As for the Cat… Models and Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics. University of Trieste, Department of Physics. Trieste, Italy. May 10, 2024.
“Why is there no consensus on the foundations of quantum mechanics?” 10th International Workshop on Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information: Philosophy and Phenomenology of Quantum Interpretations. Rome, Italy, April 9-11, 2024
“Meccanica Quantistica e Realismo Scientifico: la Luna è lì anche se non c’è nessuno che la guarda? Cambi di paradigma nella transizione classico-quantistica” Università di Bergamo. December, 19, 2023.
“Determinate Indeterminateness” (in a symposium with C. Calosi, F. Cariani. L. Letertre , C. Mariani, A. Torza). 11ᵀᴴ European Congress of Analytic Philosophy. University of Vienna. August, 21-25, 2023 (cancelled)
TBA. 100 Years of Matter Waves: Conference to Commemorate the 100^th Anniversary of de Broglie’s Founding Papers. Paris, July 3-5, 2023 (cancelled)
“What is It Like to be a Relativistic GRW Theory? Or: Quantum Mechanics and Relativity, Still in Conflict After All These Years.” IX International Workshop on Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information: Quantum Mechanics and the Notion of Theory. Online. June 22-23, 2023.
“What is It Like to be a Relativistic GRW Theory? Or: Quantum Mechanics and Relativity, Still in Conflict After All These Years.” ECR Project Proteus Seminar. Online. April 27th, 2023.
“Spontaneous Localization Theories: Quantum Philosophy between History and Physics.” Deux Journées d’histoire et épistémologie des fondements de la mécanique quantique. Université de Paris Cité- Département de Physique, Paris, France. April, 14-15, 2023.
“Time for Pancakes” International Workshop ‘The arrow of time: from local systems to the whole universe’. Buenos Aires, Argentina. February 21-24, 2023. Video
“Naturalness with a Humean Face?” 3rd Chilean Conference on the Philosophy of Physics. Santiago, Chile. December 14-17, 2022
“Many-worlds and Scientific Realism.” The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Current Status and Relation to Other Interpretations. Tel-Aviv University. October 18-24, 2022. Video
“Wave-functionalism.” Workshop: 70 years of Bohm’s pilot-wave theory. University of Lisbon. Lisbon, Portugal. October 12th, 2022.
“Freedom from the Quantum?” Free Will and Physics Workshop, Rutgers. May 11,12, 2022. Video
Comments on Nina Emery and Gabrielle Kerbel’s “Configuration Space Realism and Fundamentality.” Pacific APA meeting. April 13-16, 2022.
“Wave-functionalism.” Dartmouth College Philosophy Colloquium. October 22nd, 2021.
“Wave-functionalism.” Statistical and Quantum Mechanics: Reconsidering their Foundations on the Basis of New Cutting-edge Experiments and Theoretical Models. Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila (Italy). September 20-24, 2021. Online meeting. Video.
“Naturalness from a Humean Perspective” Sixth Annual Conference of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science. September 1-4,2021. Online meeting.
“What if? Speculations about the Best of All Possible Quantum Worlds.” International Conference in Advances in Pilot Wave Theories. July 26-30, 2021. Online meeting. Video
“Quantum Scientific Realism. Or How Everyone Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Quantum Mechanics.” VII International Workshop on Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information: Quantum Ontology and Metaphysics. April 15-16 and 22-23, 2021. Online meeting. Video
Comments on Alyssa Ney’s Book “The World in the Wave Function.” Pacific APA, online. April 6, 2021. Online meeting.
“Quantum Scientific Realism. Or How Everyone Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Quantum Mechanics.” Quantum Engineering Grenoble, Quantum Foundations Seminars, Institut Néel, March 19, 2021. Online meeting. Video; draft
“The Wavefunction is as the Wavefunction Does” Harvard Foundations of Physics Mini-Workshop on the Meaning of the Wave Function. June 15, 2020. Video.
“Quantum Realism?” Radcliff Workshop: The Bridge between Quantum Theory and Reality. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. June 7-9, 2020 – cancelled due to COVID-19
“Why Scientific Realists Should Reject the Second Dogma of Quantum Mechanics.” Conference on Quantum, Probability, and Logic. Jerusalem, May 25-27, 2020 – cancelled due to COVID-19
“The Wavefunction is as the Wavefunction Does.” Central APA, Chicago, February 26-29, 2020.
“Typicality, Probability, and Explanation between Deterministic and Indeterministic Theories” Rutgers Workshop on Probability. October 26-27, 2019. Video
“Time and Pancakes” The International Association for the Philosophy of Time (IAPT) 6th Annual Conference. University of Colorado. Boulder, CO. June 24-26, 2019.
Comments on Benjamin Neeser’s “The Language of Persistence”. The International Association for the Philosophy of Time (IAPT) 6th Annual Conference. University of Colorado. Boulder, CO. June 24-26, 2019.
“Tipicità e derivazione delle leggi microscopiche” Conference “Mettere ordine al mondo: prospettive logiche ed epistemologiche su scienza, natura, società” (‘Ordering the world: Logical and epistemological perspectives on science, nature and society’ ) Ca’ Foscari University, Venice (Italy). May 30, 2019.
“Quantum Non-Locality and Special Relativity: Peaceful Coexistence?” Philosophy of Physics Workshop in celebration of Jon Jarrett’s contributions. University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. April 5th, 2019.
“Quantum Mechanics between History, Physics and Philosophy”. NIU Physics Department Colloquium, October 26, 2018.
“The Wave Function is What the Wave Function Does.” International Workshop on “The Meaning of the Wave Function.” Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China. October 12-14, 2018.
“Some Remarks on Explanation in Statistical Mechanics”. Foundations 2018, July 10-13, 2018, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
“Some Remarks on Explanation in Statistical Mechanics”. 11th MuST Conference “Models of Explanation”, Turin, Italy. June 11-13, 2018.
“Fundamental Objects without Fundamental Properties” Fundamentality in Physics and Metaphysics Workshop, University of Geneva, Switzerland. May 29-30, 2018.
“Free Will in a Quantum World?” International Conference on Quanta and Mind. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. April 10-11, 2018.
“Quantum Mechanics, Time and Ontology.” Philosophy of Time Society at the APA Pacific Division, San Diego, CA. March 28-March 31, 2018.
“Determinism, Indeterminism and the Statistical Postulate.” 118th Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ. December 17-19, 2017.
“Towards a Structuralist Elimination of Properties.” Rutgers Workshop on Structural Realism and Metaphysics of Science. Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ. May 18-19 2017.
“Scientific Realism and the Quantum.” APA Pacific Division, Seattle, WA. April 2017.
Comments on Olin Robus’ paper: “Putnam, Stein, and Space-Time: What Can Science Do for Philosophy?” APA Central Division, Kansas City, MO. March 2017.
“Structural Realism, Laws of Nature, and Fundamental Properties.” Symposium on Radical Ontic Structural Realism. APA Eastern Division. Baltimore, MD. January 4-7 2017 (invited).
“Scientific Realism and Primitive Ontology.” Philosophy of Science Association (PSA). Atlanta, GE. November 3-5, 2016.
“Laws of Nature, Fundamental Properties and Ontology.” Midwest Annual Workshop in Metaphysics (MAWM). University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Lincoln, NE. October 14-15, 2016 (invited).
“Scientific Realism and Primitive Ontology.” Society of Philosophy of Science (Société de philosophie des science, SPS). University of Lausanne (Switzerland). June 29-July 1, 2016.
Comments on Jason Turner’s paper: “Everettian Quantum Mechanics and Evil.” Rutgers Mini-Conference on Multiverse, Theodicy, and Fine-Tuning. Rutgers University. June 10-111, 2016.
Comments on Hans Halvorson’s paper: “A Probability Problem in the Fine-Tuning Argument.” Rutgers Mini-Conference on Multiverse, Theodicy, and Fine-Tuning. Rutgers University. June 10-11, 2016.
“What Does Quantum Mechanics tell us about Time?” Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. April 10, 2015 (invited).
“Physical Theories and Primitive Ontology: a Primer.” First i-Workshop on the Meaning of the Wave Function. October 20-26, 2014.
“The Paradox of Deterministic Probabilities” Indiana Philosophical Association. Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, IN. October 16-17, 2014.
“Quantum Mechanics and Paradigm Shift s.” Topoi Conference on the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics. Oxford University. Oxford (UK). October 2-3, 2014.
“Maxwell’s Paradox: On the Metaphysics of Classical Electrodynamics and its Time-Reversal Invariance.” Society of Philosophy of Science (Société de philosophie des sciences, SPS). University of Lille 1 and University of Lille 3 (France). June 25-27, 2014.
“Quantum Mechanics and Paradigm Shifts.” Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science (Societa’ Italiana di Logica e Filosofia della Scienza, SILFS). University of Rome III, Rome (Italy). June 18-20, 2014.
“What does Quantum Mechanics Tell us about Time?” Philosophy of Time Society. Gargnano, BS (Italy). May 11-14, 2014.
“What does Quantum Mechanics Tell us about Time?”Quantum Time. Center for Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh, PA. March 28-29, 2014.
“Quantum Mechanics and Paradigm Shifts.”Annual International Conference on Philosophy. Athens (Greece). May 26-29, 2014.
“Quantum Mechanics and Paradigm Shifts.”Israeli Society for History and Philosophy of Science (ISHPS). Jerusalem (Israel). December 22, 2013.
“Primitive Ontology and Laws of Nature.”Bridging Metaphysics and Philosophy of Physics. University of Rochester. Rochester, NY. September 13 and 14, 2013.
“Pandora’s Cat: The Story of the Cat that was Neither Dead nor Alive.” Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society brown bag lunch series, Northern Illinois University. Dekalb, IL. January 30, 2013 (invited).
“Maxwell’s Paradox: On the Metaphysics of Classical Electrodynamics and its Time-Reversal Invariance.” Philosophy of Science Association (PSA). San Diego, CA. November 15-17, 2012.
“On the Metaphysics of Classical Electrodynamics and its Time-Reversal Invariance.’‘ Illinois Philosophical Association. Northern Illinois University., Dekalb, IL. November 18-19, 2011.
“Is the Classical-Quantum Transition truly an example of a Kuhnian Revolution?”Midwest Workshop in Philosophy of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (PHILOSTEM 2). Fort Wayne, IN. November 10-12, 2011.
“On the Metaphysics of Classical Electrodynamics and its Time-Reversal Invariance.”Northwest Philosophy Conference. Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR. November 3-5, 2011.
“On the Metaphysics of Classical Electrodynamics and its Time-Reversal Invariance.” Boulder Conference on the Philosophy and History of Science. Boulder, CO. September 22-25, 2011.
“Is Quantum Mechanics a Kuhnian Revolution?” Quantum Theory without Observers Conference. Sexten, BZ (Italy). July 24-August 8, 2011.
“What does Quantum Mechanics Tell us about Time?”Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS). Bergamo (Italy). December 15-17, 2010.
“Do Particles Have Free Will?” Illinois and Indiana Philosophical Association. Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL. November 5-6, 2010.
“Some Remark on Wave Function Monism.” Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science. Boulder, CO. October 22-24, 2010.
“Do Particles Have Free Will?”Central State Philosophical Association. Detroit, MI. September 23-25, 2010.
“Primitive Ontology and the Structure of Fundamental Physical Theories.” What is Quantum Theory? Sexten, BZ (Italy). August 2-11, 2010.
Comments on Alyssa Ney’s paper “Quantum Mechanics and Three-dimensional Space.” Philosophical Issues in Cosmology, Quantum Theory, and Time. Rutgers Center for Philosophy and the Sciences and the Philosophy Department, New Brunswick, NJ. April 16-18, 2010.
“On Wave Function Monism in Spontaneous Collapse Theories.” Philosophy of Physics Colloquium. Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago, IL. March 31, 2010 (invited).
Comments on Christopher Pynes’s paper: “The Mistake in Monty Fall.” Illinois Philosophical Association. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL. October 23-24, 2009.
Comments on Gregory Landini’s paper “Facts About the Slingshot.” Central State Philosophical Association, Dekalb, IL. October 9-10, 2009.
“Galileo and the Scientific Method.” Northern Illinois University, CLAS, Department of Physics and Department of History conference on New Ideas in History and Science: Galileo. Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL. February 6, 2009.
“On Wave Function Monism is Spontaneous Collapse Theories.” Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University at Bloomington, IN. January 30, 2009 (invited).
“What does Quantum Mechanics tell us about Time?”Iowa Philosophical Society, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, IA. October 18, 2008.
Comments on Gregory Landini’s paper: “Yablo’s Paradox and Russellian Propositions.” Central States Philosophical Association. St. Paul, MN. September 26-27, 2008.
Comments on Brad Skow’s paper: “Why Does Time Pass?” Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference. Bellingham,WA. August 3-7, 2008.
“What Does Quantum Mechanics Tell us about Time?” Philosophy Department, University of Macerata, Macerata (Italy). May 28, 2008 (invited).
Comments on Jeffrey Dunn’s paper: “Counterfactual Dependence, Thermodynamics, and the Special Sciences.” APA Central Division. Chicago, IL. April 17-20, 2008.
Comments on Cian Dorr’s paper: “Quantum Mechanics and Space.” Metaphysics and Physics Conference. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. October 26-8, 2007.
“Primitive Ontology and the Structure of Fundamental Physical Theories.” Quantum Reality: Ontology, Probability, Relativity. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. October 7-9, 2007.
“On the Common Structure of Quantum Theories without Observers.”Philosophy of Physics Colloquium, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. March 21, 2007 (invited).
“Pandora’s Cat: On the Common Structure of Bohmian Mechanics and the Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber Theory.” Philosophy Department, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN. February 28, 2007.
“Pandora’s Cat: On the Common Structure of Bohmian Mechanics and the Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber Theory.” Philosophy Department, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL. February 1,2007.
“Pandora’s Cat: On the Common Structure of Bohmian Mechanics and the Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber Theory.” Philosophy Department, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. January 26,2007.
“Pandora’s Cat: On the Common Structure of Bohmian Mechanics and the Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber Theory.” Philosophy Department, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. January 22, 2007.
“Pandora’s Cat: On the Common Structure of Bohmian Mechanics and the Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber Theory.” Philosophy Department, Yeshiva College, New York, NY. December 29, 2006.
“Pandora’s Cat: On Bohmian Mechanics and GRW theory.” Italian Society of History of Physics and Astronomy. Rome (Italy). June 15-17, 2006.
“On the Structure of Fundamental Physical Theory: The Notion of Primitive Ontology.” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Honolulu, HI. January 13- 16, 2005.
“On the Importance of the Notion of Primitive Ontology.” Second School on the Foundations of Physical Theories, Urbino (Italy). July 5-9, 2004.
“Seven Steps toward the Classical World.” Mysteries, Puzzles and Paradoxes in Quantum Mechanics. Gargnano, BS (Italy). August 27-September 1, 2001.
“Decoherence and the Classical Limit of Quantum Mechanics.” Quantum Structures V. Cesena and Cesenatico (Italy). March 31- April 3, 2001.
“Heavy Ions Reactions at Low Energy.” Italian Society of Physics (Societa’ Italiana di Fisica, SIF). Como (Italy). June 1997.

Chair

Metaphysics session on fundamental structure and categories. Central APA Meeting, Chicago, IL. February 17-19, 2012.
Symposium on the paper “Causation, Association, and Confirmation.” Pacific APA Meeting, San Diego, CA. April 20-23, 2011.

Discussant

Northeastern Foundations of Quantum Mechanics seminar, Boston, MA. May 13th, 2022.
New Directions in the Foundations of Physics Conference. Viterbo, Italy. June 8-10, 2018.
Rutgers-Columbia Workshop on Metaphysics of Science: Quantum Field Theories. Rutgers, New Brunswick, New Jersey. May 17-18, 2018.
Society for the Metaphysics of Science Conference, New York City, NY. October 5-7, 2017.
14th New Direction in the Foundations of Physics Conference, Washington DC. April 24-26, 2015.
Metaphysics Meets Philosophy of Physics in Rochester. University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. September 12-13, 2014.
9th New Direction in the Foundations of Physics Conference, Washington DC. April 30-May 2, 2010.
Quantum Mechanics and the Nature of Physical Reality Conference, Sexten, BZ (Italy). July 22-25, 2009.
Philosophical Foundations of Statistical Mechanics Workshop, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. May 13-15, 2009.
8th New Direction in the Foundations of Physics Conference, Washington DC. May 1-3, 2009.
Philosophy of Gauge Theory Workshop. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. April 18-19, 2009.
Illinois Philosophical Association Meeting, Dekalb, IL. November 7-8, 2008.
7th New Direction in the Foundations of Physics Conference, College Park, MD. April 25-27, 2008.
6th New Direction in the Foundations of Physics Conference, College Park, MD. April 25-27, 2007.
Philosophy of Physics: Descrying the World in Physics Summer School, Central European University, Budapest (Hungary). July 3- 14, 2006.
4th New Direction in the Foundations of Physics Conference, College Park, MD, April 29-May 1, 2005.
Descrying the World in Physics Conference, Rutgers University and Columbia University, New Brunswick, NJ and New York, NY. April 21-23, 2005.
Quantum Theories without Observers II Conference, Bielefeld (Germany). February 2-6, 2004.
ISI Foundation’s Quantum Computing Euro-Workshop, Turin (Italy). February 2000.
Chance in Physics: Foundations and Perspectives Conference, Ischia, NA (Italy). November 29-December 3, 1999.
National Seminar in Theoretical Physics, Parma (Italy). August 30-September 10, 1999.
8th International Conference on Nuclear reaction Mechanism, Varenna, CO (Italy). June 4-9, 1997.

Publications in Physics

“Observation of the Doppler Broad and Shift of the Gamma Lines of residues Produced in the interaction of 400 MeV 12C Ions with 63Cu.” In: “Proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Physics,” Berkeley, CA (2001) – (with E. Gadioli, et al.).
“Angular Distributions and Forward Recoil Range Distributions of the Residues Created in the Interaction of 12C and 16O ions with 103Rh.” Nuclear Physics A 641: 271-296 (1998) – (with E. Gadioli, et al.).
“Low Linear Momentum and Energy Transfer Reactions in the Interaction of 12C with 103Rh.” In: “Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Heavy Nucleon Reaction,” Paris, France (1998) – (with E. Gadioli et al.).
“The Interaction of 12C and 16O with 103Rh.” Acta Physica Hungarica New Series: Heavy Ion Physics 7 (now European Physical Journal A: Hadrons & Nuclei): 275-287, (1998) – (with E. Gadioli, et al.).
“Excitation Functions, Angular Momentum and Recoil Range Distributions of Residues Created in Heavy-Ion Reactions.” In: “Proceedings of the South African Institute of Physics National Conference,” Cape Town, South Africa (1998) – (with E. Gadioli, et al.).
“Spectra of Alpha Particles Emitted in the Interaction of 12C with 93Nb.” NAC Annual Report (1998) – (with M. Cavinato, et al.).
“A Comprehensive Study of the Interaction of 12C with 1 03Rh up to 33 MeV/nucleon.” In: E. Gadioli (ed.), “Ricerca Scientifica ed Educazione Permanente,” Suppl. 111: 171-181 (1997) – (with E. Gadioli, et al.).
“Comprehensive Study of the Reaction of 12C with 103Rh up to 33 MeV/nucleon.” Physics Letters B 394: 29-36, (1997) – (with E. Gadioli, et al.).
“Study of the Interaction of 12C and 16O with 103Rh.” NAC Annual Report (1997) – (with E. Gadioli, et al.).
“Comprehensive Study of the Interaction of 12C with Nuclei.” In: G. Giardina, G. Fazio, M. Lattuada (eds.), “Large Scale Collective Motion of Atomic Nuclei.” World Scientific (1996) – (with E. Gadioli, et al.).