What is it to be located?
The literature suggests two main answers to the question of what it is for a material object to be located at a region of spacetime. Both have a number of virtues. However, both suffer from well-known problems. According to one answer, location is a primitive relation with no informative metaphysica...
| Published in: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 178; no. 9; pp. 2991 - 3010 |
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Sep2021
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