A METAPHYSICS FROM STRING DUALITIES: PLURALISM, FUNDAMENTALISM, MODALITY.
Some philosophers of science have suggested that contemporary science should be the source of inspiration to the new analytic metaphysics (A. Chakravartty, C. Callender, S. French, J. Ladyman, T. Maudlin, etc.). This paper explores the prospect of a "string metaphysics": a research program in analyt...
| Publicado en: | Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences & the Humanities Vol. 104; pp. 259 - 293 |
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