Book Review: 'Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity', by James Read
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| author | De Haro, Sebastian |
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| contents | This is a review of James Read's insightful book, Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity. The book introduces various notions of background-independence which it then makes precise, and uses to make verdicts about background-independence on a wide range of examples of spacetime theories in both classical and quantum gravity. This short book is, in several ways, a worthy example of how technical philosophy of physics ought to be done. I first discuss the content, then raise a number points where I disagree with the book. |
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| spellingShingle | Book Review: 'Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity', by James Read De Haro, Sebastian History and Philosophy of Physics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory This is a review of James Read's insightful book, Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity. The book introduces various notions of background-independence which it then makes precise, and uses to make verdicts about background-independence on a wide range of examples of spacetime theories in both classical and quantum gravity. This short book is, in several ways, a worthy example of how technical philosophy of physics ought to be done. I first discuss the content, then raise a number points where I disagree with the book. |
| title | Book Review: 'Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity', by James Read |
| topic | History and Philosophy of Physics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00935 |