WIP Talk by Neil Dewar (Oxford)

[Karim Thébault]

Speaker: Neil Dewar (Oxford)
Friday 18th July 2014
Location: Ludwigstr. 31 room *028*
Time: 14:15 - 15:45

The Grammar of the Problem of Time

It is widely agreed that the Problem of Time indicates that the the methods
of the constrained Hamiltonian formalism are inappropriate when applied to
General Relativity; the interesting question involves getting clear on why
these formal methods, which work so well in other contexts, break down so
radically in this case. In this talk, I argue that the basic reason is
straightforward, and concerns the different representational roles of
independent and dependent variables: to apply the constrained Hamiltonian
method to independent variables is to treat subjects as though they were
predicates, and so to lapse into ungrammatical confusion.

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