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Relational Observables, Quiddities, and Structural Realism
Emily Adlam
In this article, I argue that modern spacetime physics causes problems for a number of traditional accounts of modality, but also offers important new ideas about the connection be…
Moderate Physical Perspectivalism
Emily Adlam
Recent developments in foundations of physics have given rise to a class of views suggesting that physically meaningful descriptions must always be relativized to a physical perspe…
How do we Observe Relational Observables?
Emily Adlam
In theories with a diffeomorphism symmetry, such as general relativity and canonical quantum gravity, it is often proposed that the empirical content is encoded in relational obser…
Against Self-Location
Emily Adlam
I distinguish between pure self-locating credences and superficially self-locating credences, and argue that there is never any rationally compelling way to assign pure self-locati…