Slowik, Edward (2024) Emergent Spatial Ontologies in the Early Modern Period. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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This essay will explore the history and conceptual development of emergent theories of space in the Early Modern period, that is, those hypotheses that regard space as a supervenient or emergent property or effect of a non-spatial substance or substances. While emergent space hypotheses have been become the dominate methodology in contemporary quantum gravity research, a number of natural philosophical systems developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially the monadologies put forward by Leibniz and the precritical Kant, proposed analogous conceptions to these modern approaches in physics. In particular, two quantum gravity hypotheses, loop quantum gravity and causal set theory, will serve as the basis for a detailed comparison with the structure of these Early Modern emergent space theories, with Kant’s depiction of the emergence of matter and space from his non-spatial monads constituting the main focus.
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| Additional Information: | This paper was presented at PSA 2021 in Baltimore. It serves as a companion to "The Property Theory of Space and Non-Spacetime Quantum Gravity Theories" recently added to the archive. Both papers offer new material and arguments not covered in my 2016 book, especially as regards internal/external properties, and includes references to recent work over the past ten years. Comments and suggestions for improvement are greatly appreciated. | ||||||
| Keywords: | space, emergence, quantum gravity, substantivalism, relationism, property | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > History of Science Case Studies Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity |
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| Depositing User: | Edward Slowik | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 27 Mar 2024 11:21 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 27 Mar 2024 11:21 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 23221 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > History of Science Case Studies Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity |
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| Date: | 22 March 2024 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23221 |
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