De Haro, Sebastian (2024) Book Review: 'Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity', by James Read. [Preprint]

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This is a review of James Read’s insightful book, 'Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity'. The book introduces various notions of background-independence which it then makes precise, and uses to make verdicts about background-independence on a wide range of examples of spacetime theories in both classical and quantum gravity. This short book is, in several ways, a worthy example of how technical philosophy of physics ought to be done. I first discuss the content, then raise a number points where I disagree with the book.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID De Haro, Sebastian s.deharo@uva.nl 0000-0002-3000-5967
Keywords:	background-independence, spacetime theories, quantum gravity, theoretical equivalence
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Depositing User:	Dr Sebastian De Haro
Date Deposited:	01 Oct 2024 11:41
Last Modified:	01 Oct 2024 11:41
Item ID:	23983
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Date:	2024
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23983

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