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- W1558220628 abstract "The back cover text of this excellent monograph closes with a bold remark on its methodology: “[T]he assumption that the fundamental laws of physics are simple in terms of the fundamental physical properties and relations is pivotal. Without this assumption one gets nowhere” when trying to “extract the fundamental structure of the world from theories of physics.” I couldn’t have put it better myself. One caveat, though: I’m not sure ‘simplicity’ is the best name for the cocktail of considerations appealed to here as premises. Arntzenius privileges spatiotemporally local and separable ontologies, for example, but these strike me as virtues of easy conceptual intelligibility or methodological conservatism rather than simplicity. Regardless, the reader can look forward to a marshalling of non-empirical theoretical virtues behind various alternative pictures of fundamental reality, in search of the best metaphysical explanation for some of the successes of modern physics. Arntzenius offers no worked-out theory of simplicity and the other virtues, but here he is in good company (nearly everyone’s). In cases where empirically equivalent hypotheses are on the table, we must trust that the intuitions of scientifically-trained scholars typically encapsulate a rough but reliable sense of a theory’s standing with respect to theoretical virtues. Since scientists themselves carry on without any systematic picture of these virtues, theoretical science itself could not proceed without this assumption. Could one ask for a better method? One could ask, I suppose, but one would have better luck asking for a pony. Given the state of the field at present, the alternatives are to give up on the sort of questions Space, Time, and Stuff asks, or to use something like Arntzenius’s method to (tentatively) answer them. I like the way Arntzenius proceeds. The reader should just keep in mind that these are tentative conclusions with only slightly more" @default.
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- W1558220628 date "2013-08-30" @default.
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- W1558220628 title "Review of Frank Arntzenius, Space, Time, and Stuff." @default.
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