Prof. Dr. Alyssa Ney
Chair
Chair of Metaphysics
Office hours:
By appointment

Chair
Chair of Metaphysics
Office hours:
By appointment
Alyssa Ney is Professor and Chair of Metaphysics at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, and Religious Studies at LMU Munich. She received her MA and PhD in Philosophy from Brown University, her MS in Physics from UC Davis, and her BS in Physics and Philosophy from Tulane University. Before coming to LMU, she was Professor of Philosophy at UC Davis and the University of Rochester. Professor Ney's research focuses primarily on questions of fundamentality, the unity of science, and the interpretation of quantum theories. She is the author of The World in the Wave Function (Oxford University Press, 2021) and Metaphysics: An Introduction (Routledge, 2014), which is now in its second edition. She is also co-editor, with David Z. Albert, of The Wave Function (Oxford University Press, 2013) and the author of numerous articles in philosophy journals that include Journal of Philosophy, Noûs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophy of Science, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, and Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. She is a former president of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science.