Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Christian Wüthrich ◽  
Baptiste Le Bihan ◽  
Nick Huggett
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Material World ◽  
Fundamental Structure ◽  
The Third ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Fertile Ground

Quantum gravity offers a fertile ground for philosophical work, particularly through its suggestion that spacetime may not be fundamental but merely a derivative structure. As such, theories of quantum gravity stand in a long tradition of physical theories with deep implications for the nature of space and time, and indeed the fundamental structure of our material world. This Introduction summarizes the contributions to this collection by structuring them around three themes. The first group of chapters analyses various aspects of the search of lost spacetime in quantum gravity. The second group studies metaphysical and epistemological aspects of the emergence in play in quantum gravity. The third group widens the investigations to several key methodological challenges arising in the context of quantum gravity.

scholarly journals Thinking about Spacetime

2021 ◽  
pp. 129-153
Author(s):  
David Yates
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Fundamental Theory ◽  
True Nature ◽  
Fundamental Ontology ◽  
Fundamental Structure ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Spacetime Structure ◽  
Research Programmes ◽  
Emergent Spacetime

Several different quantum gravity research programmes suggest, for various reasons, that spacetime is not part of the fundamental ontology of physics. This gives rise to the problem of empirical coherence, which I frame in terms of entailment: how could a non-spatiotemporal fundamental theory entail spatiotemporal evidence propositions? Solutions to this puzzle can be classified as realist or antirealist, depending on whether or not they posit a non-fundamental spacetime structure grounded in or caused by the fundamental structure. These approaches place different constraints on our everyday concepts of space and time. Applying lessons from the philosophy of mind, I argue that only realism is both conceptually plausible and suitable for addressing the problem at hand. I suggest a role-functionalist version of realism, which is consistent with both grounding and causation, and according to which our everyday concepts reveal something of the true nature of emergent spacetime.

scholarly journals When the Actual World Is Not Even Possible

2020 ◽  
pp. 233-254
Author(s):  
Christian Wüthrich
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Actual World ◽  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Fundamental Theory ◽  
Fundamental Level ◽  
Fundamental Structure ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Mere Existence ◽  
Spatiotemporal Relations

Approaches to quantum gravity often involve the disappearance of space and time at the fundamental level. The metaphysical consequences of this disappearance are profound, as is illustrated with David Lewis’s analysis of modality. As Lewis’s possible worlds are unified by the spatiotemporal relations among their parts, the non-fundamentality of spacetime—if borne out—suggests a serious problem for his analysis: his pluriverse, for all its ontological abundance, does not contain our world. Although the mere existence—as opposed to the fundamentality—of spacetime must be recovered from the fundamental structure in order to guarantee the empirical coherence of the non-spatiotemporal fundamental theory, it does not suffice to salvage Lewis’s theory of modality from the charge of rendering our actual world impossible.

scholarly journals Beyond Entanglement: (Socio-) Materiality and Organization Studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 263178772095444
Author(s):  
François Cooren
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Theory ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Material World ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
The World

Although we have to welcome the renewed interest in socio-materiality in organization studies, I claim that we are yet to understand what taking matter seriously really means. The mistake we especially need to stop making consists of automatically associating matter to something that can be touched or seen, that is, something tangible or visible, an association that irremediably leads us to recreate a dissociation between the world of human affairs and the so-called material world. To address this issue, I mobilize a communication-centered perspective to elaborate that (1) materiality is a property of all (organizational) phenomena and that (2) studying these phenomena implies a focus on processes of materialization, that is, ways by which various beings come to appear and make themselves present throughout space and time. In the paper I conceptualize the contours of these materialization processes and discuss the implications of this perspective on materiality for organizational theory and research.

scholarly journals KILKA UWAG O BADANIACH NAD ROMANIZACJĄ STATUTÓW LITEWSKICH

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Sławomir Godek
Keyword(s):  
Family Law ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Property Law ◽  
The Third ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Law Of Succession ◽  
Made In

SOME REMARKS ON THE STUDY OF THE ROMANIZATION OF LITHUANIAN STATUTESSummary The article is dedicated to the issues connected with the reception of Roman Law in the Lithuanian statutes of 1529, 1566, and 1588. After an analysis of the existing scholarly accomplishments in the field, one cannot but conclude that the study of the influence of the Roman Law on Lithuanian codifications has hardly been started yet. Despite the fairly long tradition of research in this field, so far only selected elements of the first and second statutes have been analyzed in order to identify Roman constituents. The research carried out in 1930s by Raphael Taubenschlag, Franciszek Bossowski, and Karol Koranyi demonstrated which Roman Law noticeably influenced the statutory regulations pertaining to family law, law of property, law of succession, criminal and procedural law. Their observations partly confirmed the findings previously made in the nineteenth century by Aleksander Mickiewicz, Franciszek Morze, and Ignacy Daniłowicz. At the same time, nothing is still known about the scope of Romanization in the third Lithuanian statute or about the transformations which Roman elements underwent in each of the statutes. Without further study of the subject, one cannot assess the role of Roman law in the Commonwealth (Rzeczpospolita).It seems that the most fertile ground for identification of Roman elements in the third Lithuanian statute is tutorship and succession law, especially testamentary succession. Some interesting and original observations could be made on the basis of a more thorough comparative analysis of the pertinent Roman and Lithuanian regulations.

scholarly journals PELAKSANAAN PEMBELAJARAN SENI DRAMA SEJAK USIA DINI

Imaji ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumaryadi
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Conflict Setting ◽  
Technical Staff ◽  
The Third ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Art Performance

Regarding the implementation of art education in schools, it is seen that art performance education is put in the third position after visual arts and literature. Among other forms of art performance, drama’s position is under music and dance. Drama is a performance delineating human life, which is acted on stage in front of public. The story generally has conflicts, performed through movements, actions and dialogs. Drama needs introducing to children. The attempts to introduce drama to children should be done as early as possible since the early ages have appropriate space and time, which are strategic to implant basic values in children. Related to this, there are at least two things to be put into consideration. The first is related to literature and the second to art performance. The former covers the determination of theme, synopsis, characters and characterization, plot, dramatic conflict, setting and language use. The latter includes script writing, directing, producer, technical staff, players, and audience. Keywords: art education, drama, early ages

The Moral World

2020 ◽  
pp. 228-240
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Insole
Keyword(s):  
Highest Good ◽  
Concept Of God ◽  
The Third ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Third Phase ◽  
Moral World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This chapter shows how central it is, for Kant, that the concept of God only comes downstream from, and after, the possibility of belief in the ‘moral world’. This moral world is the realm of freedom, wherein autonomy is possible. Only if (deterministic) space and time do not go ‘all the way down’, are freedom, and autonomy, possible. If space and time are ‘things-in-themselves’, Kant asserts, ‘then freedom cannot be saved’ (A536/B564). Only if there is a dimension of reality beyond mechanism, is end-setting, and so autonomy, and the highest good possible. Not even God could achieve the highest good in a universe without end-setting, and without freedom, because this universe would be a sort of ‘desert’ with no ‘inner value’. The sequence of thought we find, both in the second Critique, and in other texts is this: first of all, Kant identifies a need for happiness in proportion to virtue; then Kant identifies the obstacle to the realization of such happiness, which is the mechanistic and deterministic structure of nature; and then Kant moves to the solution, which involves leaning into the realm of freedom, which realm includes God. The significance of the third phase in the progression of thought (the realm of freedom) has not been sufficiently considered, it is argued, when considering the Kant’s ‘moral proof’, and the relationship, for Kant, between morality, the highest good, and God.

LA STRUTTURA DEL TEMPO FISICO *

Nuncius ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
GIUSEPPE BRUZZANITI
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Electrodynamics ◽  
Universal Constant ◽  
Physical Structure ◽  
Quantum Fields ◽  
Scientific Theories ◽  
Typical Problem ◽  
The Third ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Historical Dynamics

Abstract<title> SUMMARY </title>The foundamental problems related to the physical structure of space and time are today motivated by problems that arise from other scientific theories, for instance: relativistic theories, quantum electrodynamics, elementary particles.One of principal purposes of this historical-critical paper is to examine a typical problem related to the structure of time i.e. its continuity. This problem arises from all attempts to discretize space and time through the introduction of a new universal constant besides h and c.The three sections of this paper reflect the different problems considerated: in the first are ana.yzed same attempts, arisen in the quantum fields theory between 1940 and 1960, directed to the introduction of a universal constant with the dimension of a lenght. In the second, the historical dynamics of problems that conducted to the introduction of a universal constant with the dimension of a time is examinated. In the third, finally, the most important epistemological implications of this problems are considerated.

scholarly journals Quantum leaps of black holes: Magnifying glasses of quantum gravity

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (12) ◽  
pp. 1644024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumanta Chakraborty ◽  
Kinjalk Lochan
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
The Third

We show using simple arguments, that the conceptual triad of a classical black hole, semi-classical Hawking emission and geometry quantization is inherently, mutually incompatible. Presence of any two explicitly violates the third. We argue that geometry quantization, if realized in nature, magnifies the quantum gravity features hugely to catapult them into the realm of observational possibilities. We also explore a quantum route towards extremality of the black holes.

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