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On the ontology of spacetime
Gustavo E. Romero
I present a discussion of some issues in the ontology of spacetime. After a characterisation of the controversies among relationists, substantivalists, eternalists, and presentists…
Sufficient reason and reason enough
Gustavo E. Romero
I offer an analysis of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and its relevancy for the scientific endeavour. I submit that the world is not, and cannot be, rational - only some braine…
Philosophical Issues of Black Holes
Gustavo E. Romero
Black holes are extremely relativistic objects. Physical processes around them occur in a regime where the gravitational field is extremely intense. Under such conditions, our repr…
Present time
Gustavo E. Romero
The idea of a moving present or `now' seems to form part of our most basic beliefs about reality. Such a present, however, is not reflected in any of our theories of the physical w…
The collapse of supertasks
Gustavo E. Romero
A supertask consists in the performance of an infinite number of actions in a finite time. I show that any attempt to carry out a supertask will produce a divergence of the curvatu…
From change to spacetime: an Eleatic journey
Gustavo E. Romero
I present a formal ontological theory where the basic building blocks of the world can be either things or events. In any case, the result is a Parmenidean worldview where change i…