Spacetime Conventionalism Revisited.
We provide five rearticulations of the thesis that the structure of spacetime is conventional, rather than empirically determined, based upon variation of the structures that are empirically underdetermined and modal contexts in which this underdetermination occurs. Three of the five formulations of...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 91; no. 2; pp. 488 - 510 |
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Cambridge University Press
Apr2024
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