Super-relationism: combining eliminativism about objects and relationism about spacetime

Bihan, Baptiste Le

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“…As I have already argued (Le Bihan, 2016), substantivalism about spacetime is not a necessary component of priority monism. Spacetime may be construed along a relationalist picture as a collection of spatiotemporal relations obtaining between matter points or natural properties.…”

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“…My own view is that priority monism might be wholly disconnected from modal matters by being neither necessarily nor contingently true, in any interesting sense of "necessarily" and "contingently", contra a realist interpretation of metaphysical modality (cf. Sidelle 1989, Le Bihan 2015a. Therefore, I will leave aside the delicate question of the modal status of priority monism.…”

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“…On the other hand, certain approaches to GR—and physics more generally (see Barbour, 1999)—seem to again allow for a relationist understanding, and for the separated treatment of space and time. In the space‐time case too, moreover, structuralism is a live option (see Esfeld & Lam, 2008 and the ensuing debate in; Muller, 2011; Wüthrich, 2009), as are super‐substantivalism , the view that physical objects are identical to space‐time regions (see Lehmkuhl, 2018), super‐relationism , a theory that merges eliminativism about material objects and relationism about space‐time (Le Bihan, 2016) and functionalism , the conception according to which our concept of space‐time applies to whatever plays the role of determining which coordinate systems are the simplest for doing physics, and what the right transformations between these coordinate systems are (see Knox, 2018; Lam & Wüthrich, 2018). 18 Also, some of the most recent theoretical developments in physics have been taken to suggest that space and time are, or at least may be, emergent entities.…”

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Fundamentality in metaphysics and the philosophy of physics. Part II: The philosophy of physics

Morganti

2020

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This is the second part of an overview article on fundamentality in metaphysics and the philosophy of physics. Here, the notion of fundamentality is looked at from the viewpoint of the philosophical analysis of physics and physical theories. The questions are considered (1) whether physics can be regarded as fundamental with respect to other sciences, and in what sense; (2) what the label 'fundamental physics' should exactly be taken to mean; (3) on what grounds a particular physical theory should be considered fundamental; (4) what should be regarded as fundamental according to particular theories of physics; and (5) what indications come from contemporary physics concerning the fundamental structure of reality. 1 | INTRODUCTION Physics is often portrayed as the science that explores the fundamental constituents of reality and the laws that govern them. In view of this-at least if one conceives of metaphysics in a naturalistic sense and consequently aims to make one's philosophical analysis as scientifically aware as possible-it looks like philosophers dealing with fundamentality-related issues should pay close attention to what physicists have to say. 1 While this is true, however, it is not obvious to what extent, and in what precise sense, one should regard physics as a fundamental science. Indeed, an assessment of the (putative) fundamentality of physics seems both independent of and prior to the evaluation of the import of physical theories when it comes to metaphysical fundamentality. 2 Moreover, there are several aspects to be considered, and a number of elements that should be disentangled and kept separated. The present paper aims to provide a synopsis of all these aspects of fundamentality in the philosophy of physics. In Section 2 we introduce the idea that physics is the fundamental science, a view which is

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“…In other words, one might be realist about spacetime along a relationalist/structuralist approach (see e.g. Bain, 2006, Esfeld and Lam, 2008, Le Bihan, 2016. The question of whether relationism should be best thought of as a form of realism or of anti-realism about spacetime might be regarded, at first glance, as a purely terminological matter, at least to some extent.…”

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“…for a presentation of those approaches.19 The relationist/substantivalist opposition relies on several differences, the relevance of the container metaphor is just one of them, see e.g. LeBihan (2016).…”

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Spacetime emergence in quantum gravity: functionalism and the hard problem

Bihan

2019

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Spacetime functionalism is the view that spacetime is a functional structure implemented by a more fundamental ontology. Lam and Wüthrich have recently argued that spacetime functionalism helps to solve the epistemological problem of empirical coherence in quantum gravity and suggested that it also (dis)solves the hard problem of spacetime, namely the problem of offering a picture consistent with the emergence of spacetime from a non-spatio-temporal structure. First, I will deny that spacetime functionalism solves the hard problem by showing that it comes in various species, each entailing a different attitude towards, or answer to, the hard problem. Second, I will argue that the existence of an explanatory gap, which grounds the hard problem, has not been correctly taken into account in the literature.

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Super-relationism: combining eliminativism about objects and relationism about spacetime

Cited by 24 publications

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Priority Monism Beyond Spacetime

Priority Monism Beyond Spacetime

Fundamentality in metaphysics and the philosophy of physics. Part II: The philosophy of physics

Spacetime emergence in quantum gravity: functionalism and the hard problem

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