Jerome Romagosa

Bio

I am a doctoral candidate in the philosophy department of the University of California, Davis, working on topics in metaphysics, the philosophy of physics, and the philosophy of mind. I'm also the founder and primary organizer of the Davis Foundations of Physics Working Group and an organizer of the 2025 Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Graduate Philosophy Conference. 

Research

My research aims to bridge the gap between our everyday experience and the counterintuitive descriptions of the world given by fundamental physics. My dissertation (supervised by Alyssa Ney and David Glick) explores metaphysical and epistemological issues that arise from quantum mechanics—specifically, Everettian views such as the Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics. In particular, I attempt to resolve puzzles surrounding the MWI’s implications for identity through time, the metaphysics of location, mereology (part-whole relations), the nature of chance, inference from empirical data, and laws of nature.