The Metaphysics of Super‐Substantivalism |
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| Authors: | Dennis Lehmkuhl |
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| Affiliation: | Einstein Papers Project and Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesCalifornia Institute of Technology |
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| Abstract: | Recent decades have seen a revived interest in super‐substantivalism, the idea that spacetime is the only fundamental substance and matter some kind of aspect, property or consequence of spacetime structure. However, the metaphysical debate so far has misidentified a particular variant of super‐substantivalism with the position per se. I distinguish between a super‐substantival core commitment and different ways of fleshing it out. I then investigate how general relativity and alternative spacetime theories square with the different variants of super‐substantivalism. |
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