Menon, Tushar (2023) Spacetime functionalists should be inferentialists. [Preprint]

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This paper offers a reading of spacetime functionalism as a form of inferential-role metasemantics. It argues that, on this reading, the spacetime functionalist has the resources to deal with two significant challenges in the foundations of spacetime theories: (i) how to account for the manner in which spacetime vocabulary gains purchase on the world and (ii) how to clarify the explanatory relationship between (external) dynamical symmetries and spacetime symmetries in classical spacetime theories.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Menon, Tushar tushar.menon@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Keywords:	Spacetime, Metasemantics, Inferentialism
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances General Issues > Theory Change
Depositing User:	Dr Tushar Menon
Date Deposited:	28 Sep 2023 14:30
Last Modified:	28 Sep 2023 14:30
Item ID:	22586
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances General Issues > Theory Change
Date:	27 September 2023
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22586

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