Super-Humeanism: A starving ontology

Lazarovici, Dustin

doi:10.1016/j.shpsb.2018.07.001

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“…It has also been called into question whether Super-Humean matter points can serve as the referents of the Bohmian law of motion, since there is good reason to doubt that matter points persist through time (Simpson 2020 ). (For further criticisms, see Lazarovici ( 2018 ) and Wilson ( 2018 ).)…”

Section: In Search Of Bohmian Powersmentioning

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Cosmic hylomorphism

Simpson

2021

Euro Jnl Phil Sci

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The primitive ontology approach to quantum mechanics seeks to account for quantum phenomena in terms of a distribution of matter in three-dimensional space (or four-dimensional spacetime) and a law of nature that describes its temporal development. This approach to explaining quantum phenomena is compatible with either a Humean or powerist account of laws. In this paper, I offer a powerist ontology in which the law is specified by Bohmian mechanics for a global configuration of particles. Unlike in other powerist ontologies, however, this law is not grounded in a structural power that is instantiated by the global configuration. Instead, I combine the primitive ontology approach with Aristotle’s doctrine of hylomorphism to create a new metaphysical model, in which the cosmos is a hylomorphic substance with an intrinsic power to choreograph the trajectories of the particles.

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Section: In Search Of Bohmian Powersmentioning

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Cosmic hylomorphism

Simpson

2021

Euro Jnl Phil Sci

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“…17 Since Leibnizian spacetime is fundamental, Huggett's approach is not a fully constructivist project either. 18 See for instance Lazarovici (2018), and Pooley's (2013) 'have-it-all relationalism'. field that might be added (or, put technically, defined) on top of it.…”

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The Constructivist's Programme and the Problem of Pregeometry

Linnemann¹,

Salimkhani²

2021

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Prominently, Norton (2008) argues against constructivism about spacetime theories, the doctrine that spatiotemporal structure in the dynamics only has derivative status. Among other things, he accuses Brown and Pooley's dynamical approach to special relativity of being merely half-way constructivist: setting up relativistic fields as presupposed in the dynamical approach to special relativity already requires spatiotemporal background structure (pregeometry from now on). We first assess a recent solution proposal by Menon and then provide our very own defense of constructivism along two independent lines.

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“…Indeed, there is prima facie reason to suspect that it is unable to recapture the full explanatory role of physical state spaces. I say more about this problem inWilson (2018), a companion paper to the present review; see alsoLazarovici (2018). doi: 10.48106/dial.v74.i3.09…”

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