Prolegomena to any future Quantum Gravity

Abstract

I shall discuss some "conditions of possibility" of a quantum theory of gravity, stressing the need for solutions to some of fundamental problems confronting any attempt to apply some method of quantization to the field equations of general relativity.

arXiv comment26 pages

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