Smith, Rupert (2025) Misrepresenting the Hole Argument? [Preprint]

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Abstract

Key elements of the recent dialectic surrounding the hole argument
in the philosophy of general relativity are clarified by close attendance
to the nature of scientific representation. I argue that a structuralist
account of representation renders the purported haecceitistic differences
between target systems irrelevant to the representational role of models
of general relativity. Framing the hole argument in this way helps resolve
the impasse in the literature between Weatherall and Pooley and Read.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Smith, Rupert rs15613@bristol.ac.uk 0009-0001-9389-5653
Keywords:	Hole Argument. Scientific Representation. Structuralism.
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Depositing User:	Mr Rupert Smith
Date Deposited:	27 Jun 2025 14:19
Last Modified:	28 Jun 2025 15:01
Item ID:	25826
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Date:	25 June 2025
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/25826

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