Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy
Antonio Vassallo
I am a former Juan de la Cierva fellow at the University of Barcelona. I am currently an assistant professor at the Warsaw University of Technology (more information here). My research interests include the philosophy of spacetime physics and the philosophy of quantum physics.
Selection of Publications
Antonio Vassallo, Pedro Naranjo, Tim Koslowski. 2022
The physics and metaphysics of pure shape dynamics
Forthcoming in A. Vassallo, editor, The Foundations of Spacetime Physics: Philosophical Perspectives, chapter 4. Routledge, 2022.Antonio Vassallo, Albert Solé. 2022
Quantum foundations in a nutshell
Metascience, 31(1):17–20.Antonio Vassallo, Davide Romano. 2021
The metaphysics of decoherence
Erkenntnis, DOI 10.1007/s10670-021-00469-8.Antonio Vassallo. 2021
Does general relativity highlight necessary connections in nature?
Synthese. DOI 10.1007/s11229-020-03009-zAntonio Vassallo, Tomasz Bigaj. 2020
How Humean is Bohumianism?
Foundations of Physics volume 50, pages 1171–1188Antonio Vassallo. 2020
Dependence relations in general relativity
European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 10(2). DOI 10.1007/s13194-019-0265-5.Antonio Vassallo, Carl Hoefer. 2020
The Metaphysics of Machian Frame-Dragging
In C. Beisbart, T. Sauer, and C. Wüthrich, editors, Thinking about space and time.
Einstein Studies Vol. 15, pages 227–246. Birkhäuser.Antonio Vassallo. 2019
Review of ‘Philosophy of physics: Quantum theory’ by T. Maudlin (Princeton University Press, 2019).
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.Antonio Vassallo, Michael Esfeld, Dirk-André Deckert, Dustin Lazarovici, Andrea Oldofredi. 2018
A minimalist ontology of the natural world
Routledge.Antonio Vassallo, Dirk-André Deckert, Michael Esfeld. 2017
Relationalism about mechanics based on a minimalist ontology of matter
European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 7(2):299–318.Antonio Vassallo, Michael Esfeld. 2016
Leibnizian relationalism for general relativistic physics
Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 55:101–107.Antonio Vassallo. 2016
A metaphysical reflection on the notion of background in modern spacetime physics
L. Felline, A. Ledda, F. Paoli, and E. Rossanese, editors, New Directions in Logic and the Philosophy of Science, pages 349–365. College Publications.Antonio Vassallo, Pui Him Ip. 2016
On the conceptual issues surrounding the notion of relational Bohmian dynamics
Foundations of Physics, 46(8):943–972.Antonio Vassallo. 2015
Can Bohmian mechanics be made background independent?
Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 52:242–250.Antonio Vassallo, Michael Esfeld. 2015
On the importance of interpretation in quantum physics: A reply to Elise Crull
Foundations of Physics, 45(12):1533–1536.Antonio Vassallo. 2015
General covariance, diffeomorphism invariance, and background independence in 5 dimensions
In T. Bigaj and C. Wüthrich, editors, Metaphysics in Contemporary Physics, pages 237–258. Brill/Rodopi.Antonio Vassallo, Michael Esfeld. 2014
A proposal for a Bohmian ontology of quantum gravity
Foundations of Physics, 44(1):1–18.Antonio Vassallo, Michael Esfeld. 2013
From quantum gravity to classical phenomena
In T. Sauer and A. Wüthrich, editors, New Vistas on Old Problems: Recent Approaches to the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, volume 3 of Proceedings, pages 35–57. Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge.
