The Foundation of Reality
Fundamentality, Space, and Time
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 April 2020
- ISBN 9780198831501
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 240x161x21 mm
- Weight 594 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Are space and time fundamental features of our world or might they emerge from something else? The Foundation of Reality brings together metaphysicians and philosophers of physics working on space, time, and fundamentality to address this timely question.
MoreLong description:
Are space and time fundamental features of our world or might they emerge from something else? The Foundation of Reality brings together metaphysicians and philosophers of physics working on space, time, and fundamentality to address this timely question. Recent developments in the interpretation of quantum mechanics and the understanding of certain approaches to quantum gravity have led philosophers of physics to propose that space and time might be emergent rather than fundamental. But such discussions are often conducted without engagement with those working on fundamentality and related issues in contemporary metaphysics. This book aims to correct this oversight. The diverse contributions to this volume address topics including the nature of fundamentality, the relation of space and time to quantum entanglement, and space and time in theories of quantum gravity. Only through consideration of a range of different approaches to the topic can we hope to get clear on the status of space and time in our contemporary understanding of physical reality.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
The Metaphysics of the Fundamental
Fundamentality and Non-Symmetric Relations
Classifying Dependencies
Ontic Structuralism and Fundamentality
Fundamental and Derived Quantities
Privileged-Perspective Realism in the Quantum Multiverse
Quantum Mechanics and Fundamentality
Super-Humeanism: The Canberra Plan for Physics
Space-Time and Quantum Mechanics: A Discussion of Bohm's Fishtank
Wave Function Realism in a Relativistic Setting
In Defense of the Metaphysics of Entanglement
Spacetime Theories and Fundamentality
On the Independent Emergence of Space-Time
Dualities, Emergence and Fundamentality
Space-Time Substantivalism for a Structural Essentialist
When the Actual World is Not Even Possible
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