"If there isn’t any such thing as a collapse of the wave function...then there are stories about what’s physically possible that have interesting surprises in them."

David Z. Albert is a Professor of Philosophy and Director of the MA Program in The Philosophical Foundations of Physics at Columbia University in New York, renowned for his work in the foundations of quantum mechanics and the philosophy of time. Albert has contributed to The New York Review and Scientific American in addition to his many published academic papers. His rigorous but accessible analyses have made him a prominent voice in the philosophy of science.

His books include Quantum Mechanics and Experience and A Guess at the Riddle where Albert writes on the forefront of our philosophical and physical understandings of the strangeness of quantum mechanics.

"Albert, in his inimitable conversational style, digs deeply into the argument that our intuitive notion of the structure of physical space lies at the root of the problem" — Tim Maudlin

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