Thomas Ryckman

Recent talks:

Symposium on “Bohr, Quantum Mechanics and German Philosophy”, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, September 15, 2023

“Singularities: touchstone for Einstein’s philosophy of nature”, Black Hole Initiative Annual Conference, Harvard University, May 30, 2024

“Niels Bohr: transcendental physicist”, 65th Annual Lecture Series, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, September 27, 2024

“Bohr, d’Espagnat and ‘Veiled Reality’”, Colloquium ‘Les Treilles’ at Ben Guerir, Institute of Advanced Study, University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, May 26, 2025

“Cassirer, Quantum Mechanics, Symbolic Forms”, Conference “The Early Philosophical Reception of Quantum Mechanics 1930-1940”, Accademia della Scienze di Torino, June 4, 2025

“Physics and Philosophy”, Storm King School, New York, December 9, 2025

Recent writings:

“Quantum interpretations and 20th century philosophy of science”, pp. 777-96 in Olival Freire, Jr. and Guido Bacciagaluppi et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Quantum Interpretations. Oxford UP, 2022.

“QBism: Realism about What?”, pp. 191-214 in Phillip Berghofer and Harald Wiltsche (eds.), Phenomenology and QBism (Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Physics), London and New York: 2023.

“Bohrian Realism”, in H. Zwirn (ed.), Quantum Physics and Cosmology: The Mysteries of the Infinitely Small and the Infinitely Large. Wiley Online Library, November 28, 2025

Review of Guido Bacciagaluppi and Elise Crull, The Einstein Paradox: The Debate on Nonlocality and Incompleteness in 1935, Cambridge University Press, 2024. BJPS Review of Books, December 16, 2025.