The Emergence of Spacetime in String Theory Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Physics Series

The nature of space and time is one of the most fascinating and fundamental philosophical issues which presently engages at the deepest level with physics. During the last thirty years this notion has been object of an intense critical review in the light of new scientific theories which try to combine the principles of both general relativity and quantum theory?called theories of quantum gravity. This book considers the way string theory shapes its own account of spacetime disappearance from the fundamental level.

Introduction

1. Spacetime Emergence and Metaphysical Explanation in Fundamental Physics

2. Strings in a Nutshell

3. General Relatavistic Spacetime Emergence

4. T-duality and Emergence

5. Holographic Duality and Emergence

6. String Theory's Background Independence Explained through the Theory's Moduli Space

7. Spacetime Emergence via Non Commutative Quatum String Theory

Tiziana Vistarini is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Rome, "Roma Tre", Philosophy Department.