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Review of Alyssa Ney’s The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics - Alyssa Ney, The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics. New York: Oxford University Press (2021), 288 pp., $35.00 (hardcover).

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Alyssa Ney, The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics. New York: Oxford University Press (2021), 288 pp., $35.00 (hardcover).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2022

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Mario Hubert*
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The American University in Cairo, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Philosophy, New Cairo, Egypt
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 89 , Issue 4 , October 2022 , pp. 864 - 868
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Philosophy of Science Association

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