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CRISTIAN MARIANI

Adjunct Coordinator

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I’Hello. I am a Research Fellow at the Istituto di Studi Filosofici (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland, where I am currently the PI of an SNSF Ambizione Grant entitled ‘Quantum Indeterminacy. A Metaphysics for Spontaneous Collapse Models of Quantum Mechanics’. I work mainly in analytic metaphysics and philosophy of science, and am particularly interested in the interactions between these two fields. In the last years I have been focusing on the topic of metaphysical indeterminacy, especially as applied to quantum physics, and have published a few works on this. My other research interests are in the philosophy of time, the metaphysics of science broadly construed (laws, causation, emergence), and the foundations of quantum mechanics. I support FC Inter Milan. My personal website is here: https://cristianmariani.weebly.com/.

Recent Publications

2024. “The Determinacy Problem”. Foundations of Physics. Forthcoming.

2023. “The Shape of Things to Come”. With Giuliano Torrengo. Disputatio.

2023. “Quantum Metaphysics and the Foundations of Spacetime”. With Vincent Lam and Laurie Letertre. In Vassallo, A. (Ed.), The Foundations of Spacetime Physics: Philosophical Perspectives, Routledge

2022. “Non-Accessible Mass and the Ontology of GRW”. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.

2022. “Does the Primitive Ontology of GRW rest on Shaky Ground?” In Allori, V. (Ed.), Quantum Mechanics and Fundamentality. Synthese Library.  

2022. “The Metaphysics of Passage in Dynamical Reduction Models of Quantum Mechanics”. With Giuliano Torrengo. In Santelli, A. & Donati, D. (eds.), Ockhamism and Philosophy of Time, Synthese Library, Springer. 

2021. “Plural Metaphysical Supervaluationism”. With Robert Michels and Giuliano Torrengo. Inquiry.  

2021. “Quantum Indeterminacy”. With Claudio Calosi. Philosophy Compass.

2021. “Emergent Quantum Indeterminacy”. Ratio.

2021. “The Indeterminate Present and the Open Future”. With Giuliano Torrengo. Synthese

2020. “Indeterminacy: Deep but not Rock Bottom”. Analytic Philosophy.

2020. “Quantum Relational Indeterminacy”. With Claudio Calosi. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

2019. “Proprietà e leggi di natura” (in Italian: Properties and Laws of Nature), Lost in Physics and Metaphysics. PagePress: Milan. 161-174.

2018. “Book review: James Harrington’s ‘Time. A Philosophical Introduction'”. With Giuliano Torrengo.Dialectica71:4. 628-631.

2017. “Realismo, Strutture, Informazione” (in Italian: Realism, Structures, Information),  In Realtà senza realismo. PagePress: Milan. 123-148.