Against the disappearance of spacetime in quantum gravity.
This paper argues against the proposal to draw from current research into a physical theory of quantum gravity the ontological conclusion that spacetime or spatiotemporal relations are not fundamental. As things stand, the status of this proposal is like the one of all the other claims about radical...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 199; no. 2; pp. 355 - 370 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=153929227&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 153929227 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00397857 4LI jtl: Synthese issn: 00397857 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2021 Supplement 2 vid: 199 iid: 2 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 153929227 10.1007/s11229-019-02168-y ppf: 355 ppct: 15 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 217KB tig: atl: Against the disappearance of spacetime in quantum gravity. aug: au: Esfeld, Michael affil: Department of Philosophy, University of Lausanne, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland su: Quantum field theory Spacetime Quantum mechanics Quantum theory Quantum gravity Bohmian mechanics sug: subj: Quantum field theory Spacetime Quantum mechanics Quantum theory Quantum gravity Bohmian mechanics keyword: Functionalism General relativity theory Measurement problem Primitive ontology Shape dynamics ab: This paper argues against the proposal to draw from current research into a physical theory of quantum gravity the ontological conclusion that spacetime or spatiotemporal relations are not fundamental. As things stand, the status of this proposal is like the one of all the other claims about radical changes in ontology that were made during the development of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. However, none of these claims held up to scrutiny as a consequence of the physics once the theory was established and a serious discussion about its ontology had begun. Furthermore, the paper argues that if spacetime is to be recovered through a functionalist procedure in a theory that admits no fundamental spacetime, standard functionalism cannot serve as a model: all the known functional definitions are definitions in terms of a causal role for the motion of physical objects and hence presuppose spatiotemporal relations. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Synthese is a copyright of Springer, 2021. All Rights Reserved. item: Synthese holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2021 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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