Bird and the Dispositional Essentialist Account of Spatiotemporal Relations

Livanios, Vassilis

doi:10.1007/s10838-009-9075-3

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“…In none of these interpretations 13 See Bird (2007b;2009). For a defence of the view that, pace Bird, spatiotemporal relations cannot be plausibly regarded as having dispositional essences, see Livanios (2008;2017). 14…”

Section: Science-based Arguments Against Ercmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intrinsic Dispositional Properties and Immanent Realism

Livanios

2018

Grazer Philos. Stud.

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Tugby (2013a) and Yates (2016) have recently argued that immanent realism is incompatible with the existence of intrinsic but (at least partially) relationally constituted genuine dispositional properties. The success of Tugby’s and Yates’ arguments depends either on a strong or on a weak assumption about the interworld identity of dispositional properties. In this paper, the author evaluates the strength of the arguments in question under those two assumptions. He also offers an alternative metaphysical picture for the fundamental dispositional properties which rejects these assumptions and, consequently, undermines the arguments themselves.

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Section: Science-based Arguments Against Ercmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intrinsic Dispositional Properties and Immanent Realism

Livanios

2018

Grazer Philos. Stud.

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“…On this basis, it is therefore possible to conceive the spatio-temporal, gravitational relations as a causal structure as well: the metrical structures are the power or disposition to produce the gravitational effects (see Bartels [5,, Bartels [6] and Bird [11,Sect. 2.3]; see Livanios [36] against this position-however, simply pointing out the fact that the metrical structures are geometrical structures begs the question, since they contain the gravitational energy).…”

Section: Space-time and Causationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Physics and Causation

Esfeld

2009

Found Phys

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The paper makes a case for there being causation in the form of causal properties or causal structures in the domain of fundamental physics. That case is built in the first place on an interpretation of quantum theory in terms of state reductions so that there really are both entangled states and classical properties, GRW being the most elaborate physical proposal for such an interpretation. I then argue that the interpretation that goes back to Everett can also be read in a causal manner, the splitting of the world being conceivable as a causal process. Finally, I mention that the way in which general relativity theory conceives the metrical field opens up the way for a causal conception of the metrical properties as well.

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“…The above mentioned issues are exploited in Livanios (2008) to come up with a straightforward anti-causal argument. The premises of the argument are that (P1) spacetime does not force bodies to move geodesically (it just determines what the available geodesic paths are), and (P2) causal processes always involve the action of forces (at least, in fundamental physics).…”

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Dependence Relations in General Relativity

Vassallo

2019

Preprint

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The paper discusses from a metaphysical standpoint the nature of the dependence relation underpinning the talk of mutual action between material and spatiotemporal structures in general relativity. It is shown that the standard analyses of dependence in terms of causation or grounding are illsuited for the general relativistic context. Instead, a non-standard analytical framework in terms of structural equation modeling is exploited, which leads to the conclusion that the kind of dependence encoded in the Einstein field equations is a novel one.

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Bird and the Dispositional Essentialist Account of Spatiotemporal Relations

Cited by 11 publications

References 19 publications

Intrinsic Dispositional Properties and Immanent Realism

Intrinsic Dispositional Properties and Immanent Realism

Physics and Causation

Dependence Relations in General Relativity

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