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    Regularity Relationalism and the Constructivist Project
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 71 (1): 353-372. 2020.
    It has recently been argued that Harvey Brown and Oliver Pooley’s ‘dynamical approach’ to special relativity should be understood as what might be called an ontologically and ideologically relationalist approach to Minkowski geometry, according to which Minkowski geometrical structure supervenes upon the symmetries of the best-systems dynamical laws for a material world with primitive topological or differentiable structure. Fleshing out the details of some such primitive structure, and a concep…Read more
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    The Dynamical Approach as Practical Geometry
    Philosophy of Science 82 (5): 1152-1162. 2015.
    This article introduces Harvey Brown and Oliver Pooley’s ‘dynamical approach’ to special relativity, and argues that it may be construed as a relationalist form of Einstein’s ‘practical geometry’. This construal of the dynamical approach is shown to be compatible with related chapters of Brown’s text and also with recent descriptions of the dynamical approach by Pooley and others
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    Regularity Relationalism and the Constructivist Project
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 2017.
    ABSTRACT It has recently been argued that Harvey Brown and Oliver Pooley’s ‘dynamical approach’ to special relativity should be understood as what might be called an ontologically and ideologically relationalist approach to Minkowski geometry, according to which Minkowski geometrical structure supervenes upon the symmetries of the best-systems dynamical laws for a material world with primitive topological or differentiable structure. Fleshing out the details of some such primitive structure, and…Read more
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    Geometric Possibility, by Gordon Belot (review)
    Mind 125 (499): 909-913. 2016.
    In Geometric Possibility, Gordon Belot focuses on one particular aspect of the well-known substantivalist–relationalist debate. As the title suggests, he explo.