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6 papers
Laws beyond spacetime
Vincent Lam, Christian Wüthrich
Quantum gravity's suggestion that spacetime may be emergent and so only exist contingently would force a radical reconception of extant analyses of laws of nature. Humeanism presup…
Spacetime functionalism from a realist perspective
Vincent Lam, Christian Wuthrich
In prior work, we have argued that spacetime functionalism provides tools for clarifying the conceptual difficulties specifically linked to the emergence of spacetime in certain ap…
Spacetime is as spacetime does
Vincent Lam, Christian Wuthrich
Theories of quantum gravity generically presuppose or predict that the reality underlying relativistic spacetimes they are describing is significantly non-spatiotemporal. On pain o…
Particles, Cutoffs and Inequivalent Representations. Fraser andWallace on Quantum Field Theory
Matthias Egg, Vincent Lam, Andrea Oldofredi
We critically review the recent debate between Doreen Fraser and David Wallace on the interpretation of quantum field theory, with the aim of identifying where the core of the disa…
The physics and metaphysics of primitive stuff
Michael Esfeld, Dustin Lazarovici, Vincent Lam +1
The paper sets out a primitive ontology of the natural world in terms of primitive stuff, that is, stuff that has as such no physical properties at all, but that is not a bare subs…
No categorial support for radical ontic structural realism
Vincent Lam, Christian Wuthrich
Radical ontic structural realism (ROSR) asserts an ontological commitment to 'free-standing' physical structures understood solely in terms of fundamental relations, without any re…