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Geometric Possibility (Hardcover)
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Geometric Possibility (Hardcover)
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Relationalism about space is a venerable doctrine that is enjoying
renewed attention among philosophers and physicists. Relationalists
deny that space is ontologically prior to matter and seek to ground
all claims about the structure of space in facts about actual and
possible configurations of matter. Thus, many relationalists
maintain that to say that space is infinite is to say that certain
sorts of infinite arrays of material points are possible (even if,
in fact, the world contains only a finite amount of matter).
Gordon Belot investigates the distinctive notion of geometric
possibility that relationalists rely upon. He examines the
prospects for adapting to the geometric case the standard
philosophical accounts of the related notion of physical
possibility, with particular emphasis on Humean, primitivist, and
necessitarian accounts of physical and geometric possibility. This
contribution to the debate concerning the nature of space will be
of interest not only to philosophers and metaphysicians concerned
with space and time, but also to those interested in laws of
nature, modal notions, or more general issues in ontology.
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