The foundation of reality : fundamentality, space, and time /

The foundation of reality : fundamentality, space, and time / edited by David Glick, George Darby, and Anna Marmodoro.

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Are space and time fundamental features of our world or might they emerge from something else? The Foundation of Reality brings together metaphysicians and philosophers of physics working on space, time, and fundamentality to address this timely question.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Glick, David (Editor), Darby, George (Philosopher) (Editor), Marmodoro, Anna, 1975- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Reality.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • The Foundation of Reality: Fundamentality, Space, and Time
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction
  • I.1 Concepts of Fundamentality and Emergence
  • I.1.1 Fundamentality and Emergence in Metaphysics
  • I.1.2 Fundamentality and Emergence in the Philosophy of Physics
  • I.2 Substantivalism and Relationalism
  • I.3 Quantum Theory and Spacetime Non-fundamentality
  • I.3.1 Wavefunction Realism
  • I.3.2 Super-Humeanism
  • I.4 Quantum Gravity and Emergent Spacetime
  • I.4.1 Some Approaches to Quantum Gravity.
  • I.1.2 Problems of Emergent Spacetime
  • Acknowledgement
  • SECTION 1: The Metaphysics of Fundamentality
  • 1: Fundamentality and Non-Symmetric Relations
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Converse Relations
  • 1.2.1 Relational Properties
  • 1.2.2 Converses: Strict and Loose
  • 1.3 Fundamental Symmetric Relations
  • 1.3.1 Fundamental Theorising
  • 1.4 Derivative Non-symmetric Relations
  • 1.4.1 Asymmetric Structures
  • 1.4.2 Internal Relations
  • 1.4.3 Absolutism v. Comparativism
  • 1.5 Identity Criteria for Derivative Relations
  • 1.5.1 Individuating Fundamental Relations.
  • 1.5.2 Relational Expressions and Conventions
  • 1.5.3 Reflecting Differences v. Inducing Order
  • 1.5.4 Symmetric Instantiations
  • 1.5.5 Cross-Relation Comparisons
  • 1.6 Generative Operations
  • 1.6.1 Causation as a Generative Operation
  • 1.6.2 Grounding as a Generative Operation
  • 1.7 Conclusion
  • 2: Classifying Dependencies
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Causation and Grounding
  • 2.3 Against the Distinctness Criterion
  • 2.4 Against the Fundamentality Criterion
  • 2.5 Against the Categorial Criterion
  • 2.6 Against the Temporal Criterion
  • 2.7 Against the Intervention Criterion.
  • 2.8 Against the Modal Criterion
  • 2.9 A Mediation Demarcation Criterion
  • 2.10 Implications for Simultaneous Causation
  • 2.11 Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • 3: Ontic Structuralism and Fundamentality
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Grounding, Ontological Dependence, etc.
  • 3.3 Ontic Structural (Real)ism
  • 3.4 Structuralist Ontologies for Contemporary Physical Theories
  • 3.5 Structures, Objects, and Fundamentalia in Physics:An Assessment
  • 3.6 Metaphysical Coherentism?
  • 3.7 Conclusions
  • 4: Fundamental and Derived Quantities
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Fundamental Properties and Laws.
  • 4.3 Systems of Units and the Distinction of Quantities into Base and Derived Quantities
  • 4.4 Problems with Taking the Base Quantities to Be Fundamental Properties
  • 4.5 Natural Units and Universal Constants
  • 4.6 Conclusion
  • 5: Privileged-Perspective Realism in the Quantum Multiverse
  • 5.1 Metaphysics and Perspectival Facts
  • 5.2 The Argument from Special Relativity against PPR about Tensed Facts
  • 5.3 The Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics
  • 5.3.1 The Copenhagen Interpretation and PPR
  • 5.3.2 The Everett Interpretation: Neutrality and the Multiverse.

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