Priority Monism Beyond Spacetime

Bihan, Baptiste Le

doi:10.1515/mp-2018-0005

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“…62 And, for the latter, there is also a certain fit with our background knowledge through the concept of a trope, as noted previously, being a widely used notion within the various fields of contemporary metaphysics. However, where we see there to be a clash with our background knowledge for both of these theses is as follows: for Priority Monism, as noted by Le Bihan (2018), there seems to be a tension between it and the wider field of contemporary theoretical physics-and the field of the philosophy of physics, which it is grounded upon. Specifically, certain promising research programs in quantum gravity, such as loop quantum gravity and string theory, are taken by certain physicists to deny the fundamentality of spacetime (Le Bihan 2018).…”

Section: Assessment Of Primitiveness and The Candidatesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Grounding and the Existence of God

Sijuwade

2021

Metaphysica

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In this article, I seek to assess the extent to which Theism, the claim that there is a God, can provide a true fundamental explanation for the instantiation of the grounding relation that connects the various entities within the layered structure of reality. More precisely, I seek to utilise the explanatory framework of Richard Swinburne within a specific metaphysical context, a ground-theoretic context, which will enable me to develop a true fundamental explanation for the existence of grounding. And thus, given the truth of this type of explanation, we will have a further reason to believe in the existence of God.

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Grounding and the Existence of God

Sijuwade

2021

Metaphysica

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“…Our reality depends on their ontologically prior reality. But the fields are interconnected and fill the Universe, so the Universe is basic and prior to its contents (see Le Bihan 2018).…”

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Living God Pandeism: Evidential Support

Lane¹

2021

Zygon

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Pandeism is the belief that God chose to wholly become our Universe, imposing principles at this Becoming that have fostered the lawful evolution of multifarious structures, including life and consciousness. This article describes and defends a particular form of pandeism: living God pandeism (LGP). On LGP, our Universe inherits all of God's unsurpassable attributes—reality, unity, consciousness, knowledge, intelligence, and effectiveness—and includes as much reality, conscious and unconscious, as is possible consistent with retaining those attributes. God and the Universe, together “God‐and‐Universe,” is also eternal into the future and the past. The article derives testable hypotheses from these claims and shows that the evidence to date confirms some of these while falsifying none. Theism cannot be tested in the same way.

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“…The spatiotemporal gap problem is a specific conceptual gap problem between a putatively non-spatiotemporal theory and a derivative spatiotemporal theory, first and foremost set up by Le Bihan (2018a, b) and Le Bihan and Linnemann (2018), and further illustrated in Le Bihan (2019). To be clear: surely, intertheory relations generically involve conceptual gaps.…”

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On the empirical coherence and the spatiotemporal gap problem in quantum gravity: and why functionalism does not (have to) help

Linnemann¹

2020

Synthese

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The empirical coherence problem of quantum gravity is the worry that a theory which does not fundamentally contain local beables located in space and time—such as is arguably the case for certain approaches to quantum gravity—cannot be connected to measurements (which are actually carried out in space and time) and thus has its prospects of being empirically adequate undermined. Spacetime functionalism à la Lam and Wüthrich (Stud Hist Philos Mod Phys 64:39–51, 2018) is said to solve this empirical coherence problem as well as bridging a (putatively) severe conceptual gap between spatiotemporal structures of classical spacetime theories on the one hand, and the (so-called) non-spatiotemporal structures in quantum gravity approaches on the other hand (call this the spatiotemporal gap problem). The aim of this essay is to offer a deflationary account of both the empirical coherence problem and the spatiotemporal gap problem as they are claimed to arise at least prima facie for current theories of quantum gravity by Huggett and Wüthrich (Stud Hist Philos Mod Phys 44(3):276–285, 2013), Lam and Wüthrich (2018) and Le Bihan (Synthese 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02449-6). I defend the view that (1) spacetime functionalism is set up to address a problem (the empirical coherence problem) which can usually be solved without it; and that (2) it is wrongly claimed to (dis)solve another problem which for any actual account of quantum gravity is in fact currently non-existent anyway (the spatiotemporal gap problem).

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Priority Monism Beyond Spacetime

Cited by 24 publications

References 28 publications

Grounding and the Existence of God

Grounding and the Existence of God

Living God Pandeism: Evidential Support

On the empirical coherence and the spatiotemporal gap problem in quantum gravity: and why functionalism does not (have to) help

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