Article ID: CBB001252364

The Structural Metaphysics of Quantum Theory and General Relativity (2012)

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Lam, Vincent (Author)
Esfeld, Michael-Andreas (Author)


Journal for General Philosophy of Science
Volume: 43, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 243-258


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Part of special issue, “Philosophy of Physics”
Language: English

The paper compares ontic structural realism in quantum physics with ontic structural realism about space--time. We contend that both quantum theory and general relativity theory support a common, contentful metaphysics of ontic structural realism. After recalling the main claim of ontic structural realism and its physical support, we point out that both in the domain of quantum theory and in the domain of general relativity theory, there are objects whose essential ways of being are certain relations so that these objects do not possess an intrinsic identity. Nonetheless, the qualitative, physical nature of these relations is in the quantum case (entanglement) fundamentally different from the classical, metrical relations treated in general relativity theory.

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Renn, Jürgen
Aerts, Diederik
Afriat, Alexander
Balibar, Françoise
Brown, Paul Tolliver
Buchwald, Diana Kormos
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Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
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Relativity, general
Physics
Quantum mechanics
Philosophy of science
Gravitation
Relativity, special
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Einstein, Albert
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Broglie, Louis Victor Pierre Raymond de
Eddington, Arthur Stanley
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