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Mind 2006 115(457):41-73; doi:10.1093/mind/fzl041
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© Huggett 2006

The Regularity Account of Relational Spacetime

Nick Huggett

Department of Philosophy, MC 267, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA huggett{at}uic.edu

A version of relationism that takes spatiotemporal structures—spatial geometry and a standard of inertia—to supervene on the history of relations between bodies is described and defended. The account is used to explain how the relationist should construe models of Newtonian mechanics in which absolute acceleration manifestly does not supervene on the relations; Ptolemaic and Copernican models for example. The account introduces a new way in which a Lewis-style ‘best system’ might capture regularities in a broadly Humean world; a defence is given against a charge of indeterminism that applies to any such approach to laws.


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