GINO TAROZZI
Gino Tarozzi, professor of Logic and philosophy of science at the University Urbino Carlo Bo since 1988,
has investigated both the foundations of quantum physics, suggesting probabilistic generalizations of Bell’s
theorem and discussing some experimental tests of a proposed new realistic interpretation of the wave
function, and the relationships between physics and epistemology, showing the opportunity of a
reformulation of the main metaphysical theses in the history of scientific and philosophical thought, like
realism, causality, holism, nothing, and the mind-body problem, in terms of empirical meaningful
philosophical concepts and principles, that can be usefully compared with the descriptions of the world
provided by our main physical theories.
He carried out his academic studies at the Bologna Alma Mater Studiorum University with Alberto
Pasquinelli, philosopher of science, pupil of Rudolf Carnap, founding father of logical positivism, and
Antonio Pignedoli, eminent mathematical physicist, who was very critical of the standard subjectivist
interpretation of quantum mechanics. Tarozzi was thus influenced both by the neopositivistic anti
metaphysical approach of the former and by the latter’s yearning for a realistic and causal interpretation of
quantum mechanics: Accordingly, he studied the foundations of physics, focusing on the open problems of
quantum mechanics on the one hand, and general questions in the theory of knowledge in the light of the
foundations of physics, on the other. He received his degree in philosophy in 1977, upon discussing a
dissertion on the epistemological foundations of quantum theory. Part of this dissertation, comparing the
logical non distributive with the realistic interpretation of the wave particle duality, appeared few months
later on the review Il Nuovo Cimento, was considered ”tres interessant” by Louis de Broglie (1), Nobel prize
in Physics 1929 for his discovery of the wave nature of matter.