Baker, David (2004) Spacetime Substantivalism and Einstein's Cosmological Constant. In: UNSPECIFIED. (In Press)

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I offer a novel argument for spacetime substantivalism: we should take the spacetime of general relativity to be a substance because of its active role in gravitational causation. As a clear example of this causal behavior I offer the cosmological constant, a term in the most general form of the Einstein field equations which causes free-floating objects to accelerate apart. This acceleration cannot, I claim, be causally explained except by reference to spacetime itself.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Baker, David
Keywords:	cosmological constant substantivalism relationism
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory Specific Sciences > Physics
Depositing User:	David Baker
Date Deposited:	26 Aug 2004
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:12
Item ID:	1913
Public Domain:	No
Conference Date:	18-20 November 2004
Conference Location:	Austin, TX
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory Specific Sciences > Physics
Date:	2004
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/1913

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