Still foes: Benovsky on relationism and substantivalism

European Journal for Philosophy of Science 6 (2):247-260 (2016)
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It is widely believed that relationism cannot make room for the possibility of intervals of time during which no changes occur. Benovsky has recently challenged this belief, arguing that relationists can account for the possibility of changeless time in much the same way as substantivalists do, thereby concluding that the two views are interchangeable for all theoretical purposes. This paper intends to defend the meaningfulness of the traditional dispute between substantivalists and relationists, by contending that the particular form of relationism on which Benovsky has based his criticism is in fact alien to that debate

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