Patrick M. Duerr
University of Oxford
17 Papers
Patrick M. Duerr is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: General relativity & Gravitational energy. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 8 publications. Previous affiliations of Patrick M. Duerr include University of Bremen.
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Papers
Against ‘functional gravitational energy’: a critical note on functionalism, selective realism, and geometric objects and gravitational energy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors revisited the debate between realists and anti-realists about the existence of gravitational energy in the real world, and examined the arguments underpinning Hoefer's seminal eliminativist stance and those of their realist detractors.
It ain't necessarily so: Gravitational waves and energy transport
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review and critically examine the four textbook arguments commonly taken to establish that gravitational waves carry energy-momentum: 1. the increase in kinetic energy that a GW confers on a ring of test particles, 3. nonlinearities within perturbation theory, construed as the gravity's contribution to its own source, and 4. the Noether Theorems, linking symmetries and conserved quantities.
Theory (In-)Equivalence and conventionalism in f(R) gravity.
TL;DR: The case for conventionalism about spacetime geometry in f(R) gravity (as well as General Relativity) turns out to be considerably stronger than that of as discussed by the authors, however.
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Why Reichenbach wasn't entirely wrong, and Poincaré was almost right, about geometric conventionalism.
TL;DR: In this article , the authors revisited conventionalism about the geometry of classical and relativistic spacetimes, and clarified key themes of, and rectified common misunderstandings about, conventionalism.
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The general-relativistic case for super-substantivalism
TL;DR: This paper tentatively proposes a re-formulation of the original argument in favour of super-substantivalism, based on General Relativity, that not only seems to apply to all classical physics, but also chimes with a standard interpretation of spacetime theories in the philosophy of physics.