Quantum gravity meets structuralism: interweaving relations in the foundations of physics

MaRDI QIDQ3434460zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Dean Rickles, Steven French

Publication date 2 May 2007

zbMATH Keywords

background dependencebackground independencehole argumentquantum gravitystructuralism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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