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(2006) The ontology of spacetime, Amsterdam, Elsevier.
In this essay, I consider the ontological status of spacetime from the points of view of the standard tensor formalism and three alternatives: twistor theory, Einstein algebras, and geometric algebra. I briefly review how classical field theories can be formulated in each of these formalisms, and indicate how this suggests a structural realist interpretation of spacetime.
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Bain, J. (2006)., Spacetime structuralism, in D. Dieks (ed.), The ontology of spacetime, Amsterdam, Elsevier, pp. 37-65.