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A Precipice Below Which Lies Absurdity? Theories without a Spacetime and Scientific Understanding
Sebastian De Haro, Henk W. de Regt
While the relation between visualization and scientific understanding has been a topic of long-standing discussion, recent developments in physics have pushed the boundaries of thi…
Duality, Fundamentality, and Emergence
Elena Castellani, Sebastian De Haro
Dualities offer new possibilities for relating fundamentality and emergence. In particular, as is the aim of this chapter to show, it may happen that the relations of fundamentalit…
Interpreting Theories without a Spacetime
Sebastian De Haro, Henk De Regt
In this paper we have two aims: first, to draw attention to the close connexion between interpretation and scientific understanding; second, to give a detailed account of how theor…
The Heuristic Function of Duality
Sebastian De Haro
I conceptualise the role of dualities in quantum gravity, in terms of their functions for theory construction. I distinguish between two functions of duality in physical practice:…