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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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Table of Contents

1. A Trope-Bundle Ontology for Field-Theory, A. Wayne
2. Is Structural Realism Relationism in Disguise? The Supererogatory Nature of the Substantivalism/Relationism Debate, M. Dorato
3. Identity, Spacetime and Cosmology, J. Faye
4. Persistence and Multilocation in Spacetime, Yu. Balashov
5. Is Spacetime a Gravitational Field?, D. Lehmkuhl
6. Structural Aspects of the Singular Features of Space-Time, V. Lam
7. Who's Afraid of Background Independence?, D. Rickles
8. Understanding Indeterminism, C. Brighouse
9. Conventionality of Simultaneity and Reality, V. Petkov
10. Pruning Some Branches from Branching Spacetimes, J. Earman
11. Time Lapse and the Degeneracy of Time: Goedel, Proper Time and Becoming in Relativity Theory, R.T.W. Arthur
12. On Temporal Becoming, Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics, T. Bigaj
13. Relativity, the Passage of Time and the Cosmic Clock, P. Forrest
14. Time and Relation in Relativity and Quantum Gravity, A. de Saint-Ours
15. Mechanisms of Unification in Kaluza-Klein Theory, I. Muntean
16. Condensed Matter Physics and the Nature of Spacetime, J. Bain.

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Selected conference papers.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Amsterdam : Elsevier Science & Technology, 2008. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser. Title from title screen (viewed on Nov. 14, 2008). Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.

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Series
Philosophy and foundations of physics -- v. 4

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115
Library of Congress
QC173.59.S65 I58 2006eb, BD632

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OL27078700M
Internet Archive
ontologyspacetim00diek
ISBN 10
0444532757
ISBN 13
9780444532756
OCLC/WorldCat
272383153

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