Geometric possibility / Gordon Belot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belot, Gordon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space and time.

Relationism.

Physics--Philosophy.

Physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 219 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Relationalism seeks to ground all claims about the structure of space in facts about actual and possible configurations of matter. Gordon Belot elucidates the prospects for this view of the nature of space by investigating the kew notion of geometric possibility in relation to philosophical notions of physical possibility.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""I: Possible Structures of Space""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Distance""; ""3. Candidates for Spatial Structure""; ""4. Plenitude of Possibilities""; ""5. Distance Relations?""; ""II: Spatial Structure for Relationalists""; ""1. Substantivalism and the Structure of Space""; ""2. Conservative Relationalism""; ""3. Modal Relationalism""; ""III: Best-System Approaches""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Lewis on Physical Possibility""; ""3. Huggett on Geometric Possibility""; ""4. Worries About Best-System Approaches""; ""5. Summation""

""IV: Primitivist Approaches""""1. Introduction""; ""2. A First Primitivist Approach""; ""3. Geometric Facts for Substantivalists""; ""4. Another Primitivist Strategy""; ""5. Beyond Metricity""; ""6. Summation""; ""V: Necessitarian Approaches""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Necessitarianism about Laws""; ""3. Compatibility Properties""; ""4. Necessitarianism about Geometry""; ""5. Super-Grounding and Necessitarianism""; ""6. Summation""; ""Conclusion""; ""Appendix A. Simplicity and Ontology""; ""Appendix B. Limits of Sequences of Metric Spaces""

""Appendix C. Some Background to the Absolute-Relational Debate""""Appendix D. Leibniz and Modal Relationalism""; ""Appendix E. More on Congruence and Superposability""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-968105-8

1-283-26542-7

9786613265425

0-19-161890-X

OCLC:

754326555