Umfang:
x, 256 Seiten
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ISBN:
9781032518343
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9781032518336
Serie:
Routledge studies in the philosophy of mathematics and physics
Inhalt:
"This book argues that our current best theories of fundamental physics are best interpreted as positing spacetime as non-fundamental. It is written in accessible language and largely avoids mathematical technicalities by instead focusing on the key metaphysical and foundational lessons for the fundamentality of spacetime. According to orthodoxy, spacetime and spatiotemporal properties are regarded as fundamental structures of our world. Spacetime fundamentalism, however, faces challenges from speculative theories of quantum gravity - roughly speaking, the project of applying the lessons of quantum mechanics to gravitation and spacetime. This book demonstrates that the non-fundamentality of spacetime does not rely on speculative physics alone. Rather, one can give an interpretation of general relativity that supports some form of spacetime non-fundamentalism. The author makes the case for spacetime non-fundamentalism in three steps. First, he confronts the standard geometrical interpretation of general relativity with Brown and Pooley's dynamical approach to relativity theory. Second, he considers an alternative derivation of the Einstein field equations, namely the classical spin-2 approach, and argues that it paves the way for a refined dynamical approach to general relativity. Finally, he argues that particle physics can serve as a continuity condition for the metaphysics of spacetime. The Non-Fundamentality of Spacetime will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, and metaphysics"--
Anmerkung:
Literaturangaben
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Dissertation Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn 2020
Weitere Ausg.:
10.4324/9781003404149
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781003404149
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Philosophie
Schlagwort(e):
Raum-Zeit
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Metaphysik
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Hochschulschrift
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