Faye, Jan (2007) Identity, Space-time, and Cosmology. [Preprint]

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Abstract

Modern cosmology treats space and time, or rather space-time, as concrete particulars. The General Theory of Relativity combines the distribution of matter and energy with the curvature of space-time. Here space-time appears as a concrete entity which affects matter and energy and is affected by the things in it. I question the idea that space-time is a concrete existing entity which both substantivalism and reductive relationism maintain. Instead I propose an alternative view, which may be called non-reductive relationism, by arguing that space and time are abstract entities based on extension and changes.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Faye, Jan
Keywords:	Space-time, ontology, abstract entity
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Depositing User:	Jan Faye
Date Deposited:	19 Dec 2007
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:16
Item ID:	3741
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Date:	July 2007
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/3741

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