CV for David Wallace – October 2017

Personal

Born 1976 in San Rafael, California; US/UK dual citizen. Currently resident in Los Angeles, USA.

Employment

• 2016-: Professor of Philosophy at the School of Philosophy, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California. • 2014-2016: Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy, and Vice-Master (academic), at Balliol College, Oxford, and Professor in at the . • 2005-2014: Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford, and Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. • 2004-5: Fellow by Examination (Junior Research Fellow) at Magdalen College, Oxford • 2002: Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Centre for Quantum Computation, Oxford University

Education

• 2004-2010: DPhil student in Philosophy, Magdalen College, Oxford, supervised by Prof. Simon Saunders. My DPhil ("The Emergent Multiverse: Quantum Theory according to the Everett Interpretation") was greatly delayed when I was appointed to a permanent teaching position at Oxford, but was submitted in April 2010 and passed its examination in September 2010. • 2002-2004: BPhil student in Philosophy, Magdalen College, Oxford. Distinction. • 1998-2001: DPhil student in Physics, Merton College, Oxford, supervised by Prof. Artur Ekert. My DPhil ("Issues in the Foundations of Relativistic Quantum Theory") was submitted in January 2002 and passed its examination in April 2002. • 1994-1998: MPhys student in Physics, Merton College, Oxford. • 1987-1994: Bedford School, UK.

Publications - Books

1. D. Wallace, The Emergent Multiverse: Quantum Theory according to the Everett Interpretation (OUP, 2012). 2. S. Saunders, J. Barrett, A. Kent and D. Wallace (ed.), Many Worlds? Everett, Quantum Theory, and Reality (OUP, 2010).

Publications - papers in peer-reviewed journals (including accepted papers awaiting publication)

1. D. Wallace, "Fundamental and Effective Geometry in Newtonian Physics", British Journal for the , forthcoming. 2. D. Wallace, "Who's afraid of coordinate systems? An essay on the representation of spacetime structure", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, forthcoming. 3. D. Wallace, "More Problems for Newtonian Cosmology", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 57 (2017) pp.35-40. 4. D. Wallace, "The Quantitative Content of Statistical Mechanics", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 52 (2015) pp.285--293. 5. D. Wallace, "Recurrence Theorems: a Unified Account", Journal of Mathematical Physics65 (2015) 022105. 6. D. Wallace, "Thermodynamics as Control Theory", Entropy16.2 (2014) pp. 699-725. 7. H. Greaves and D. Wallace, "Empirical Consequences of Symmetries", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 65 (2014) pp.59-89. 8. D. Wallace, "Decoherence and its Role in the Modern Measurement Problem", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A 370 (2012) 4076-4093. 9. D. Wallace, "Taking Particle Physics Seriously: a critique of the algebraic approach to quantum field theory", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 42 (2011) pp.116-125. 10. D. Wallace and C. Timpson, " on Spacetime I: Spacetime State Realism", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 61 (2010) pp. 697-727 11. D. Wallace, "Gravity, Entropy and Cosmology: In Search of Clarity", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 61 (2010) pp. 513-540. 12. D. Wallace, "QFT, Antimatter, and Symmetry", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 40 (2009) pp. 209-222. 13. S. Saunders and D. Wallace, "Saunders and Wallace Reply (2008)" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 59 (2008), pp. 315-317 14. S. Saunders and D. Wallace,"Branching and Uncertainty" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 59 (2008), pp. 293-305. 15. D. Wallace and C. Timpson, "Non-locality and gauge freedom in Deutsch and Hayden's formulation of quantum mechanics" Foundations of Physics 37 (2007), pp. 951-955. 16. D. Wallace, "Quantum Probability from Subjective Likelihood: improving on Deutsch's proof of the probability rule", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38 (2007), pp. 311--332. 17. H. Greaves and D. Wallace, "Justifying conditionalisation: conditionalisation maximises expected epistemic utility" Mind 115 (2006) pp. 607-632. 18. D. Wallace, "Epistemology Quantised: circumstances in which we should come to believe in the Everett interpretation", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 57 (2006), pp. 655-689. 19. D. Wallace, "In defence of naivete: the conceptual status of Lagrangian QFT", 151 (2006) pp. 33- 80. 20. H.R. Brown and D. Wallace, "Solving the measurement problem: de Broglie-Bohm loses out to Everett", Foundations of Physics 35 (2005), pp. 517-540. 21. D. Wallace, "Protecting cognitive science from quantum theory", Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (2004) pp. 636-7. 22. D. Wallace, "Everettian Rationality: defending Deutsch's approach to probability in the Everett interpretation", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 34 (2003), pp. 415-438. 23. D. Wallace, "Everett and Structure", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 34 (2003), pp. 86--105. 24. D. Wallace, "Worlds in the Everett Interpretation", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 33 (2002), pp. 637--661. 25. D. Wallace, "Simple computer model for the quantum Zeno effect", Physical Review A 63 (2001), 022019.

Publications - published work elsewhere

1. D. Wallace, Against Wavefunction Realism, in S. Dasgupta and B. Weslake (eds.), Current Controversies in the Philosophy of Science (Routledge, 2017) 2. D. Wallace, "The Relativity and Equivalence Principles for Self-Gravitating Systems", D. Lehmkuhml, G. Schiemann and E. Scholtz (eds.), Towards a Theory of Spacetime Theories (Springer, 2017). 3. D. Wallace, "The Nature of the Past Hypothesis", in K. Chamcham, J. Silk and J. D. Barrow (eds.), The Philosophy of Cosmology (OUP, 2017). 4. D. Wallace, "Inferential vs. Dynamical Conceptions of Physics", in O. Lombardi (ed.), What is quantum information?(CUP, 2017). 5. D. Wallace, "Probability in Physics: Statistical, Stochastic, Quantum", in A. Wilson (ed.), Chance and Temporal Asymmetry (OUP, 2014). 6. D. Wallace, Review of "Interpreting Quantum Theories", by Laura Ruetsche, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science64 (2014), 425-428. 7. D. Wallace, The Arrow of Time in Physics, in A. Bardon and H. Dyke (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Time (Wiley, 2013). 8. D. Wallace, "The Everett Interpretation", in R. Batterman (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Physics (OUP, 2013). 9. D. Wallace, "A prolegomenon to the ontology of the Everett interpretation", in A. Ney and D. Albert (ed.), The Wave Function: Essays in the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics (OUP, 2013). 10. D. Wallace, "Interview", in M. Schlosshauer (ed.), Elegance and Enigma: The Quantum Interviews (Springer, 2011). 11. D. Wallace,"Diachronic Rationality and Prediction-Based Games",Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 110 (2010) pp. 243-266. 12. D. Wallace, "Decoherence and Ontology: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love FAPP", in S. Saunders, J. Barrett, A. Kent and D. Wallace (ed.), Many Worlds? Everett, Quantum Theory, and Reality (OUP, 2010). 13. D. Wallace, "How to Prove the Born Rule", in S. Saunders, J. Barrett, A. Kent and D. Wallace (ed.), Many Worlds? Everett, Quantum Theory, and Reality (OUP, 2010). 14. D. Wallace, "Quantum Mechanics", chapter 1 of D. Rickles (ed), The Ashgate Companion to the New Philosophy of Physics (Ashgate, 2008). 15. D. Wallace, "Time-dependent symmetries: the link between gauge symmetries and indeterminism", in K. Brading and E. Castellani (ed.), Symmetries in physics: philosophical reflections (CUP, 2003).

Publications - forthcoming, submitted and other papers

1. D. Wallace, "Why Black Hole Information Loss is Paradoxical" (2017), in submission. 2. D. Wallace, "The Case for Black Hole Thermodynamics, Part I - Phenomenological Thermodynamics" (2017), in submission. 3. D. Wallace, "The Case for Black Hole Thermodynamics, Part II - Statistical Mechanics" (2017), in submission. 4. D. Wallace, "The Quantum Theory of Fields (2017), to appear in forthcoming Handbook of Philosophy of Physics, E. Knox and A. Wilson (eds.) 5. D. Wallace, Lessons from Realistic Physics for the Metaphysics of Quantum Theory (2016), in submission. 6. D. Wallace, "Probability and Irreversibility in Modern Statistical Mechanics: Classical and Quantum" (2016), to appear in D. Bedingham, O. Maroney and C. Timpson (eds.), Quantum Foundations of Statistical Mechanics (OUP, forthcoming). 7. D. Wallace, "What is orthodox quantum mechanics?" (2016), forthcoming in Proceedings of the XII International Ontology Congress. 8. D. Wallace, "Interpreting the Quantum Mechanics of Cosmology" (2016), to appear in forthcoming OUP volume on philosophy of cosmology, Anna Ijjas and Barry Loewer (ed.) 9. D. Wallace, "Fields as Bodies: a Unified Presentation of Spacetime and Internal Gauge Symmetry" (2015), online-only. 10. D. Wallace, "Deflating the Aharonov-Bohm Effect" (2015), in submission. 11. D. Wallace, "Life and Death in the Tails of the GRW Wave Function" (2014), online-only. 12. D. Wallace, "The logic of the past hypothesis" (2011), in B. Loewer, E. Winsberg and B. Weslake (ed.), Time's Arrows and the Probability Structure of the World (Harvard, forthcoming).

Teaching

Undergraduate classes taught: general philosophy of science, philosophy of quantum mechanics, philosophy of statistical mechanics.

Graduate seminars taught: probability and decision theory, philosophy of statistical mechanics, the Everett interpretation.

Undergraduate tutorial teaching in Philosophy of Maths, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Formal Logic, Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic, the Leibniz/Clarke Correspondence, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology.

Lecturing in general philosophy of quantum mechanics, philosophy of statistical mechanics, and the Everett interpretation.

Graduate students supervised (UK system): Eleanor Knox (2007-9), Joshua Rosaler (2010-2013), Neil Dewar (2013- 2016), Tushar Menon (2014-present).

Refereeing and assessment

Editorial Board, Mind.

Philosophy journals: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Mind, Philosophy of Science, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Erkenntnis, Nous, Synthese.

Physics journals: Foundations of Physics, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, International Journal for Theoretical Physics, Journal of Mathematical Physics.

Presses: , Princeton University Press, Wiley-Blackwell.

Institutions: All Souls College Oxford, Magdalen College Oxford, Merton College Oxford, National Science Foundation, Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi), John Templeton Foundation.