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Ulrich Mohrhoff teaches physics and quantum philosophy at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (SAICE) in Puducherry (formerly Pondicherry), India. (He is presently on temporary leave to concentrate on his forthcoming textbook of quantum mechanics.)

He received his education (in physics) from the University of Göttingen, Germany, and the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India.

His chief interests are

  • the foundations of quantum mechanics,
  • the ontological implications of contemporary physics,
  • consciousness (how can a material thing be conscious? how can there be consciousness of material things?),
  • the place of physics in the context of a larger reality,
  • the nature of that larger reality.

He has published numerous articles on these subjects. He is also the managing editor of AntiMatters, an open-access e-journal addressing issues in science and the humanities from non-materialistic perspectives.

He can be reached via this email address.

 
 
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In the interpretation he has put forth, Mohrhoff has shown us a thought provoking and original view of the way that, according to quantum mechanics, the world can be.
— Louis Marchildon, Foundations of Physics 34, 59-73 (2004)
For completeness' sake let me however mention here a stimularing suggestion from U. Mohrhoff (2000, section IV; 2001 ). This author aimed at preserving the notion that the physical space is strongly objective while ascribing to it some at least of the features of phenomenal space. In view of experiments of the Young-slit type he granted that all of the latter cannot be kept. And the one he chose to give up was the idea that the various regions of space should exist by themselves independently of the objects that may or may not be in them. In other words, it was the idea that physical space is intrinsically partitioned into infinitesimal regions (and can therefore be represented by a transfinite set of real number triplets). According to him the place where an object is is comparable to the color of the object, in that the latter cannot conceivably be separated from the very existence of the said object. As an alternative to my views Mohrhoff's suggestion is certainly worth studying.
— Bernard d'Espagnat, On Physics and Philosophy (Princeton University Press, 2006, p. 239)
Well, there are certainly original things to say... I just read online a few weeks ago the Pondicherry Interpretation... It's the physics... attitude of Ulrich Mohrhoff, who happens to teach in Pondicherry, India. The Pondicherry Interpretation is startlingly original to me. So I said to myself, "my God, there’s a new way of thinking about the world!"
— Stephin Merritt in an interview with Pitchfork