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A Proposal for a Metaphysics of Self-Subsisting Structures. I. Classical Physics
| العنوان: | A Proposal for a Metaphysics of Self-Subsisting Structures. I. Classical Physics |
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| المؤلفون: | Vassallo, Antonio, Naranjo, Pedro, Koslowski, Tim |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | Physics (Other) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Physics - History and Philosophy of Physics |
| الوصف: | We present a new metaphysical framework for physics that is conceptually clear, ontologically parsimonious, and empirically adequate. This framework relies on the notion of self-subsisting structure, that is, a set of fundamental physical elements whose individuation and behavior are described in purely relational terms, without any need for a background spacetime. Although the specification of the fundamental elements of the ontology depends on the particular physical domain considered -- and is thus susceptible to scientific progress -- , the empirically successful structural features of the framework are preserved through theory change. The kinematics and dynamics of these self-subsisting structures are technically implemented using the theoretical framework of Pure Shape Dynamics, which provides a completely relational physical description of a system in terms of the intrinsic geometry of a suitably defined space called shape space. Comment: 36 pages. Published in Synthese 200, 374 (2022) |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11229-022-03865-x |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01456 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsarx.2209.01456 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11229-022-03865-x |
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