Alexander Pruss's Blog

Suppose a substantivalist view of spacetime on which points of spacetime really exist. Suppose I had taken a different path to my office to...

I find myself going back and forth between substantivalism and relationalism about spacetime. On a substantivalist theory, the points of spa...

For a long time I’ve been inclining towards relationalism about space (or more generally spacetime), but lately my intuitions have been shif...

Suppose substantivalism about space is correct. Imagine now that the following happens to a slice of swiss cheese: the space where the holes...

It’s just occurred to me that substantivalist views of space or spacetime are actually relationalist: they define location by relations betw...

According to substantivalism, spacetime or its points or regions is a substance, and location is a relation between material things and spac...