书评:James Read 著《经典与量子引力中的背景独立性》
Book Review: 'Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity', by James Read
AI总结:
本文评介 James Read 关于经典与量子引力中背景独立性的著作,概述其概念澄清与理论评判,并提出若干异议。
摘要:
这是对 James Read 富有洞见的著作《经典与量子引力中的背景独立性》的一篇书评。该书介绍了背景独立性的各种概念,随后将其精确化,并据此对经典引力和量子引力中广泛的时空理论示例作出关于背景独立性的评判。这本简短的著作在多个方面都是技术型物理哲学应如何开展的优秀范例。我首先讨论其内容,随后提出若干与该书观点不同之处。
英文摘要:
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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