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About meI received my PhD in Philosophy (Epistemology and Logic) in 2020 from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil), with a study on metaphysical aspects of the interpretations of quantum mechanics, which I have been studying since my MA (Philosophy: Metaphysics and Knowledge) in 2015 at the State University of Maringá (Brazil).
I am currently a postdoc researcher at the Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil, where I organize the CLE Permanent Seminar on Metaphysics. I am also a researcher at the Research Group in Logic and Foundations of Science (CNPq) and the Research Group in Philosophy of Logic and Language (GFILL/CNPq), and a member of the International Network on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information. Support: grant #2021/11381-1, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). My researchI am interested in the methodological and epistemological aspects of the metaphysics of science, and its relation with scientific realism. In my PhD thesis I discussed one of the central problems of metaphysical methodology, which is to seek derivation of justification for metaphysical theories from the success of science. This requires a productive relationship between the two disciplines. I proposed an inversion in the current discussion, suggesting that quantum mechanics, my case study, negatively informs metaphysics: we can objectively establish which metaphysical categories are incompatible with the theory. For that, new terminology was presented, and rival conceptions were evaluated.
My current research is on the philosophy of quantum mechanics and the metaphysics of science. Specifically the problem of underdetermination in quantum mechanics, and connections between partial truth and ontological commitments for scientific realism. |
