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David Wallace is a philosopher of science at the University of Pittsburgh, specializing in the philosophy of physics. He is interested in emergence and reductionism, structural realism, decision theory, and especially the Everett interpretation of quantum theory, often called the “Many-Worlds Interpretation. His book on that topic, entitled, The Emergent Multiverse, was published in 2012. He is also the author of The Philosophy of Physics: A Very Short Introduction, published in 2021.