Space Emergence in Contemporary Physics: Why We Do Not Need Fundamentality, Layers of Reality and Emergence.
'Space does not exist fundamentally: it emerges from a more fundamental non-spatial structure.' This intriguing claim appears in various research programs in contemporary physics. Philosophers of physics tend to believe that this claim entails either that spacetime does not exist, or that it is deri...
| Publicado en: | Disputatio: International Journal of Philosophy Vol. 10; no. 49; pp. 71 - 96 |
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Paradigm Publishing Services
2018
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