The curious case of spacetime emergence.
Work in quantum gravity suggests that spacetime is not fundamental. Rather, spacetime emerges from an underlying, non-spatiotemporal reality. After clarifying the type of emergence at issue, I argue that standard conceptions of emergence available in metaphysics won't work for the emergence of space...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 177; no. 8; pp. 2207 - 2227 |
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