Contents

pp v-vi

List of Contributors

pp vii-viii

1 - Introduction

pp 1-22

Part I - Spacetime Emergence

pp 23-24

2 - The Bronstein Hypercube of Quantum Gravity

pp 25-52

3 - Emergence of Time in Loop Quantum Gravity

pp 53-78

4 - Beyond Standard Inflationary Cosmology

pp 79-104

5 - What Black Holes Have Taught Us about Quantum Gravity

pp 105-114

Part II - Time in Quantum Theories of Gravity

pp 115-116

6 - Space and Time in Loop Quantum Gravity

pp 117-132

7 - Being and Becoming on the Road to Quantum Gravity; or, the Birth of a Baby Is Not a Baby

pp 133-142

8 - Temporal Relationalism

pp 143-175

9 - Back to Parmenides

pp 176-206

Part III - Issues of Interpretation

pp 207-208

10 - Why Black Hole Information Loss Is Paradoxical

pp 209-236

11 - Chronic Incompleteness, Final Theory Claims, and the Lack of Free Parameters in String Theory

pp 237-256

12 - Spacetime and Physical Equivalence

pp 257-283

13 - On the Empirical Consequences of the AdS/CFT Duality

pp 284-303

14 - Extending Lewisian Modal Metaphysics from a Specific Quantum Gravity Perspective

pp 304-337

15 - What Can (Mathematical) Categories Tell Us about Spacetime?

pp 338-357

Index

pp 358-362