Out of Nowhere

Nick Huggett (PhD Rutgers University, 1995) is an LAS Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago. His specialties are the philosophy of science and the philosophy of physics. His early publications concentrated on quantum field theory, and theories of space from antiquity to the present. In recent years he has been collaborating with Christian Wüthrich (University of Geneva) on a project on the philosophy of quantum gravity. He has written or edited six books and over 50 articles on these topics.Christian Wüthrich (PhD University of Pittsburgh, 2006) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Geneva, where he heads the Geneva Symmetry Group. He works primarily in philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, and metaphysics. From 2006 to 2015, he was at the University of California, San Diego. He is the Co-Director (with Nick Huggett) of the Beyond Spacetime research project on the philosophy of quantum gravity. He has edited six books or special issues of journals and has published over 40 articles.

• Preface1: Introduction: the emergence of spacetime2: Spacetime functionalism3: Spacetime from causality: causal set theory4: The emergence of spacetime from causal sets5: The road to loop quantum gravity6: The disappearance and emergence of spacetime in loop quantum gravity7: A string theory primer8: Duality9: The string theoretic account of general relativity10: The 'emergence' of spacetime in string theory11: Conclusion: whence spacetime?Bibliography