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The structure of causal sets
Christian Wuthrich
More often than not, recently popular structuralist interpretations of physical theories leave the central concept of a structure insufficiently precisified. The incipient causal s…
The fate of presentism in modern physics
Christian Wuthrich
There has been a recent spate of essays defending presentism, the view in the metaphysics of time according to which all and only present events or entities exist. What is particul…
In search of lost spacetime: philosophical issues arising in quantum gravity
Christian Wuthrich
This essay presents an accessible introduction to the basic motivations to seek a quantum theory of gravity. It focuses on one approach- loop quantum gravity - as an example of the…
Time in quantum gravity
Nick Huggett, Tiziana Vistarini, Christian Wuthrich
Quantum gravity--the marriage of quantum physics with general relativity--is bound to contain deep and important lessons for the nature of physical time. Some of these lessons shal…
Emergent spacetime and empirical (in)coherence
Nick Huggett, Christian Wuthrich
Numerous approaches to a quantum theory of gravity posit fundamental ontologies that exclude spacetime, either partially or wholly. This situation raises deep questions about how s…