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The relational ontology of contemporary physics

Francesca Vidotto

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Abstract

Quantum theory can be understood as pointing to an ontology of relations. I observe that this reading of quantum mechanics is supported by the ubiquity of relationality in contemporary fundamental physics, including in classical mechanics, gauge theories, general relativity, quantum field theory, and the tentative theories of quantum gravity.

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To appear in the volume "Quantum Mechanics and Fundamentality: Naturalizing Quantum Theory between Scientific Realism and Ontological Indeterminacy", edited by Valia Allori, Springer Nature
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physics.hist-phHistory and Philosophy of Physics quant-phQuantum Physics

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