The Foundation of Reality: Fundamentality, Space, and Time
David Glick, George Darby, and Anna Marmodoro
Abstract
Are space and time fundamental features of our world or might they emerge from something else? This volume brings together metaphysicians and philosophers of physics working on space, time, and fundamentality to address this timely question. Recent developments in the interpretation of quantum mechanics and the understanding of certain approaches to quantum gravity have led philosophers of physics to propose that space and time might be emergent rather than fundamental. But such discussions are often conducted without engagement with those working on fundamentality and related issues in contem ... More
Are space and time fundamental features of our world or might they emerge from something else? This volume brings together metaphysicians and philosophers of physics working on space, time, and fundamentality to address this timely question. Recent developments in the interpretation of quantum mechanics and the understanding of certain approaches to quantum gravity have led philosophers of physics to propose that space and time might be emergent rather than fundamental. But such discussions are often conducted without engagement with those working on fundamentality and related issues in contemporary metaphysics. This volume aims to correct this oversight. The diverse contributions to this volume address topics including the nature of fundamentality, the relation of space and time to quantum entanglement, and space and time in theories of quantum gravity. Only through consideration of a range of different approaches to the topic can we hope to get clear on the status of space and time in our contemporary understanding of physical reality.
Keywords:
fundamentality,
space and time,
emergence,
quantum mechanics,
quantum gravity
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198831501 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2020 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198831501.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
David Glick, editor
University of Sydney
George Darby, editor
Oxford Brookes University
Anna Marmodoro, editor
Chair of Metaphysics, University of Durham
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