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AGPhil: Arbeitsgruppe Philosophie der Physik

AGPhil 3: Space, Time and Symmetry II

AGPhil 3.2: Hauptvortrag

Dienstag, 31. März 2020, 17:45–18:30, H-HS IV

How to be a Spacetime Functionalist. — •Eleanor Knox — King's College London

Spacetime functionalism has become a popular topic, but the devil is in the details - it is easy to advance a broad functionalist thesis, but if such a position is to have interesting applications it needs to be fleshed out. This talk will articulate one version of spacetime functionalism, inertial frame functionalism, and defend it against some recent objections.