Alyssa Ney

Alyssa Ney is an American philosopher of science, a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Davis. Her interests include metaphysics, the philosophy of physics, and the philosophy of mind.

Education and career

Ney majored in physics and philosophy at Tulane University, graduating in 1999. She then went to Brown University for graduate study in philosophy, earning a master's degree in 2003 and completing her Ph.D. in 2005. Her dissertation, The Metaphysics of Unified Science, was supervised by Jaegwon Kim. Later, as a physics professor, she earned a second master's degree in physics from the University of California, Davis in 2020.

She joined the University of Rochester as an assistant professor in 2005, subsequently becoming James P. Wilmot Assistant Professor and, in 2011, associate professor. She moved to her present position at the University of California, Davis in 2015 and was promoted to full professor in 2019.

In 2022, she became one of the founding editors of the journal Philosophy of Physics. In 2024, Daily Nous announced that she would be moving to Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as Professor and Chair of Metaphysics.

Books

Ney's books include:

• Metaphysics: An Introduction (Routledge, 2014; 2nd ed., 2023)
• The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics (Oxford University Press, 2021)

With David Albert, she is co-editor of The Wave Function: Essays in the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics (Oxford University Press, 2013).

External links

• Home page
• Alyssa Ney publications indexed by Google Scholar