3 papers
physics.hist-ph2025
Hyperdeterminism? Spacetime 'Analyzed'
Lu Chen, Tobias Fritz
When modelling spacetime and classical physical fields, one typically assumes smoothness (infinite differentiability). But this assumption and its philosophical implications have n…
physics.hist-ph2024
Univalence and Ontic Structuralism
Lu Chen
The persistent challenge of formulating ontic structuralism in a rigorous manner, which prioritizes structures over the entities they contain, calls for a transformation of traditi…
physics.hist-ph2024
Symmetries as Isomorphisms
Lu Chen
Symmetries and isomorphisms play similar conceptual roles when we consider how models represent physical situations, but they are formally distinct, as two models related by symmet…