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Discussion: Conceptual Foundations of Field Theories in Physics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 2022
Abstract
This discussion provides a brief commentary on each of the papers presented in the symposium on the conceptual foundations of field theories in physics. In Section 2 I suggest an alternative to Paul Teller's (1999) reading of the gauge argument that may help to solve, or dissolve, its puzzling aspects. In Section 3 I contend that Sunny Auyang's (1999) arguments against substantivalism and for “objectivism” in the context of gauge field theories face serious worries. Finally, in Section 4 I claim that Gordon Fleming's (1999) proposal for hyperplane-dependent Newton-Wigner fields differs importantly from his previous arguments about hyperplane-dependent properties in quantum mechanics.
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I would like to thank Sunny Auyang, Gordon Fleming, and Paul Teller for useful comments on earlier drafts of this paper.
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