Spacetime Structuralism or Spacetime Functionalism?

Eleanor Knox (King's College London)

Tues 4 Mar, 5.00pm
Room 243, second floor, Senate House, WC1

Eleanor Knox (Kings College London)

Spacetime Structuralism or Spacetime Functionalism?

Abstract: I examine some currently popular articulations of ontic structural realism with respect to spacetime points, and find them lacking. Instead, I propose functionalism about spacetime itself (with at most derivative consequences for its points). This has much in common with structuralist positions, but has the virtue of usefully applying to emergent spacetimes.
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