An invitation to conventionalism: a philosophy for modern (space-)times.
Geometric underdetermination (i.e., the underdetermination of the geometric properties of space and time) is a live possibility in light of some of our best theories of physics. In response to this, geometric conventionalism offers a selective anti-realism, refusing to assign truth values to variant...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 204; no. 1; pp. 1 - 56 |
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