A Formal Ontological Theory Based on Timeless Events

Philosophia 44 (2):607-622 (2016)
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I offer a formal ontological theory where the basic building blocks of the world are timeless events. The composition of events results in processes. Spacetime emerges as the system of all events. Things are construed as bundles of processes. I maintain that such a view is in accord with General Relativity and offers interesting prospects for the foundations of classical and quantum gravity.

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10.1007/s11406-016-9697-8

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Gustavo E. Romero
Universidad Nacional de La Plata

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Systemic materialism.Gustavo E. Romero - 2022 - In Gustavo E. Romero, Javier Pérez-Jara & Lino Camprubí (eds.), Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology. Springer. pp. 79-107.

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