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URL:https://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/activities/essentialism-and-spacetime/
SUMMARY:Essentialism and Spacetime
DESCRIPTION:Tomasz Bigaj (Warsaw) In my talk I will discuss how the metaphy
 sical position of essentialism can help us shed light on the nature of spa
 cetime and solve some difficulties associated with the stance of substanti
 valism. Spatiotemporal essentialism assumes that the metric structure of s
 pacetime determines the identity of points and regions. I will distinguish
  three variants of spatiotemporal essentialism and compare them with respe
 ct to how they deal with the hole argument as well as some lesser challeng
 es. I will argue in favor of Lewis-style radical essentialism which assume
 s that a necessary and sufficient condition for being a given spatiotempor
 al point is to occupy its actual place in the metric structure. This solut
 ion gives additional arguments to the thesis of the ontological primacy of
  structures over objects.
CATEGORIES:Extra talks
LOCATION:Seminario de Lógica ("Ramon Lllull")
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