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The vessels and the glue: Space, time, and causation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2005

Andrei Rodin*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Ecole Normale Superieure, 75230Paris Cedex 05, France

Abstract:

In addition to the “universal glue,” which is the local mechanical causation, the standard explanatory scheme of classical science presumes two “universal vessels,” which are global space and time. I call this outdated metaphysical setting “black-and-white” because it allows for only two principal scales. A prospective metaphysics able to bind existing sciences together needs to be “colored,” that is, allow for scale relativity and diversification by domain.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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