The Hole Truth

DOI10.1093/BJPS/40.1.1zbMath0709.03520OpenAlexW2016240149MaRDI QIDQ3491575

Jeremy Butterfield

Publication date: 1989

Published in: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/40.1.1

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Relativity and gravitational theory (83-XX)

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Time and determinism ⋮ Pitholes in Space-Time: Structure and Ontology of Physical Geometry ⋮ No two entities without identity ⋮ Representation and Spacetime: The Hole Argument Revisited ⋮ The role of symmetry in the interpretation of physical theories ⋮ A new spin on the hole argument ⋮ Explaining Leibniz equivalence as difference of non-inertial appearances: dis-solution of the hole argument and physical individuation of point-events ⋮ Emergence, reduction and supervenience: a varied landscape ⋮ The relativity of inertia and reality of nothing ⋮ Laplace's demon tries on Aristotle's cloak: on two approaches to determinism ⋮ Rehabilitating relationalism ⋮ Why manifold substantivalism is probably not a consequence of classical mechanics ⋮ Determinism and ontology ⋮ New perspectives on the hole argument ⋮ On representational capacities, with an application to general relativity ⋮ Regarding `Leibniz equivalence' ⋮ The hole argument, take \(n\) ⋮ Confessions of a (cheap) sophisticated substantivalist ⋮ The hole argument against everything ⋮ Cramer's transactional interpretation and causal loop problems ⋮ Relativistic spacetimes and definitions of determinism ⋮ Some philosophical prehistory of the (Earman-Norton) hole argument ⋮ Loop quantum ontology: spacetime and spin-networks ⋮ Structural essentialism and determinism

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