Shan Gao

Shan Gao is Professor of Philosophy at the Research Center for Philosophy of Science and Technology, Shanxi University, and Visiting Professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is the founder and managing editor of the International Journal of Quantum Foundations, and is the author of several books including the recent monograph The Meaning of the Wave Function: In Search of the Ontology of Quantum Mechanics (CUP, 2017). He is the editor of Protective Measurement and Quantum Reality: Towards a New Understanding of Quantum Mechanics (CUP, 2015) and co-editor of Quantum Nonlocality and Reality: 50 Years of Bell’s Theorem (CUP, 2016). His research focuses on the philosophy of physics, especially the foundations of quantum mechanics. He also has interests in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of science.