The Ontology of Spacetime II
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The sixteen papers collected in this volume are expanded and revised versions of talks delivered at the Second International Conference on the Ontology of Spacetime, organized by the International Society for the Advanced Study of Spacetime (John Earman, President) at Concordia University (Montreal) from 9 to 11 June 2006.

Most chapters are devoted to subjects directly relating to the ontology of spacetime.

The book starts with four papers that discuss the ontological status of spacetime and the processes occurring in it from a point of view that is first of all conceptual and philosophical. The focus then slightly shifts in the five papers that follow, to considerations more directly involving technical considerations from relativity theory. After this, Time, Becoming and Change take centre stage in the next five papers. The book ends with two excursions into relatively uncharted territory: a consideration of the status of Kaluza-Klein theory, and an investigation of possible relations between the nature of spacetime and condensed matter physics, respectively.

  • Space and time in present-day physics and philosophy
  • Relatively low level of technicality, easily accessible
  • Introduction from scratch of the debates surrounding time
  • Broad spectrum of approaches, coherently represented

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Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2008
ISBN
9780080569888
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Physics
Index
Physics

Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Series Editors: Dennis Dieks and Miklos Redei
  5. Copyright page
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1 A Trope-Bundle Ontology for Field Theory
  9. Chapter 2 Is Structural Spacetime Realism Relationism in Disguise? The Supererogatory Nature of the Substantivalism/Relationism Debate
  10. Chapter 3 Identity, Spacetime, and Cosmology
  11. Chapter 4 Persistence and Multilocation in Spacetime
  12. Chapter 5 Is Spacetime a Gravitational Field?
  13. Chapter 6 Structural Aspects of Space-Time Singularities
  14. Chapter 7 Who's Afraid of Background Independence?
  15. Chapter 8 Understanding Indeterminism
  16. Chapter 9 Conventionality of Simultaneity and Reality
  17. Chapter 10 Pruning Some Branches from “Branching Spacetimes”
  18. Chapter 11 Time Lapse and the Degeneracy of Time: Gödel, Proper Time and Becoming in Relativity Theory
  19. Chapter 12 On Temporal Becoming, Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics
  20. Chapter 13 Relativity, the Passage of Time and the Cosmic Clock
  21. Chapter 14 Time and Relation in Relativity and Quantum Gravity: From Time to Processes
  22. Chapter 15 Mechanisms of Unification in Kaluza–Klein Theory
  23. Chapter 16 Condensed Matter Physics and the Nature of Spacetime
  24. Subject Index
  25. Author Index