Some remarks on recent formalist responses to the hole argument
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Menon, Tushar and Read, James. (2024). Some remarks on recent formalist responses to the hole argument. Foundations of Physics: an international journal devoted to the conceptual and fundamental theories of modern physics, biophysics, and cosmology. 54(1), pp. 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-023-00746-2
Authors | Menon, Tushar and Read, James |
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Abstract | In a recent article, Halvorson and Manchak (Br J Philos Sci, Forthcoming) claim that there is no basis for the Hole Argument, because (in a certain sense) hole isometries are unique. This raises two important questions: (a) does their argument succeed?; (b) how does this formalist response to the Hole Argument relate to other recent responses to the Hole Argument in the same tradition—in particular, that of Weatherall (Br J Philos Sci 69(2):329–350, 2018)? In this article, ad (a), we argue that Halvorson and Manchak’s claim does not go through; ad (b), we argue that although one prima facie plausible reading would see Halvorson and Manchak as filling an important hole (no pun intended) in Weatherall’s argument, in fact this reading is implausible; there is no need to supplement Weatherall’s work with Halvorson and Manchak’s results. |
Keywords | general relativity; hole argument; isometries; mathematical structuralism |
Year | 01 Jan 2024 |
Journal | Foundations of Physics: an international journal devoted to the conceptual and fundamental theories of modern physics, biophysics, and cosmology |
Journal citation | 54 (1), pp. 1-20 |
Publisher | Springer New York LLC |
ISSN | 0015-9018 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-023-00746-2 |
Web address (URL) | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10701-023-00746-2 |
Open access | Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 1-20 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 11 Dec 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 17 Nov 2023 |
Deposited | 30 Aug 2024 |
Additional information | © The Author(s) 2023 |
This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, | |
Place of publication | United States |
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