Space, Time, and Samuel Alexander.
Super-substantivalism is the thesis that space is identical to matter; it is currently under discussion – see Sklar (1977, 221–4), Earman (1989, 115–6) and Schaffer (2009) – in contemporary philosophy of physics and metaphysics. Given this current interest, it is worth investigating the thesis in th...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 549 - 570 |
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