Olimpia Lombardi

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Olimpia Iris Lombardi (born 16 March 1960) [1] is an Argentine philosopher of science whose research involves ontology in chemistry and in quantum mechanics, including the use of ontological pluralism to argue for treating chemistry as autonomous from, rather than subsidiary to, physics. [2] [3]

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Education and career

After studying at the Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini, [4] Lombardi entered the University of Buenos Aires, [1] where she earned a degree in electromechanical engineering in 1983. Returning to the university for graduate study, she earned a licenciatura in philosophy in 1996, and completed her doctorate in 2001, with the dissertation El Problema del Determinismo en la Física. [4]

She is a Superior Investigator for the Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and a researcher at the University of Buenos Aires, where she is the director of the group on philosophy of particular sciences. [5]

Books

Lombardi is the author of Aspectos Filosóficos de la Teoría del Caos (2011), [6] a coauthor of the books Introduction to the Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (2010) [7] and Los Múltiples Mundos de la Ciencia: Un Realismo Pluralista y su Aplicación a la Filosofía de la Física (2012), [8] and a co-editor of the books Fronteras del determinismo: Filosofía y Ciencia en diálogo (2015), [9] What is Quantum Information? (2017), [10] and Quantum Worlds: Perspectives on the Ontology of Quantum Mechanics (2019). [11]

Recognition

In 2006, Lombardi won the Konex Award in humanities for her work in logic and the philosophy of science. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Olimpia Iris Lombardi (in Spanish), Fundación Konex, retrieved 2022-02-11
  2. Lombardi, Olimpia; Cordero, Alberto; Pérez Ransanz, Ana Rosa (7 February 2020), "Philosophy of Science in Latin America", in Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2020 ed.)
  3. Cordero Lecca, Alberto (2015), "Philosophy of Science in Latin America" (PDF), Analítica, 9: 9–42
  4. 1 2 Curriculum vitae (PDF) (in Spanish), April 2012
  5. Integrantes del Grupo de Filosofía de las Ciencias de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales de la UBA (in Spanish), University of Buenos Aires, retrieved 2022-02-11
  6. Aspectos Filosóficos de la Teoría del Caos, Editorial Universitaria Rioplatense, 2011.
  7. Introduction to the Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, with Sebastián Fortin, Juan Sebastián Ardenghi, and Mario Castagnino, Nova Science Publishers, 2010.
  8. Los Múltiples Mundos de la Ciencia: Un Realismo Pluralista y su Aplicación a la Filosofía de la Física, with Ana Rosa Pérez Ransanz, Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 2012.
  9. Fronteras del determinismo: Filosofía y Ciencia en diálogo, edited with Claudia Vanney, Biblioteca Nueva, 2015. Review:
    • Sánchez Campos, Martha (2016), "Review", Anuario Filosófico (in Spanish), 49 (2): 489–492
  10. What is Quantum Information?, edited with Sebastian Fortin, Cristian López, and Federico Holik, Cambridge University Press, 2017. Review:
  11. Quantum Worlds: Perspectives on the Ontology of Quantum Mechanics, edited with Sebastian Fortin, Cristian López, and Federico Holik, Cambridge University Press, 2019.