Does space exist over and above the objects around us? How does time differ from space? Recent scientific advances herald nothing less than a conceptual revolution regarding those questions with the stunning idea that space and time are not, fundamentally, real.
However, to fully understand the emergence of space and time and its philosophical implications, we must also account for the causal relations that seem to structure the natural world, and enable human beings to interact causally with their environment.
The Swiss National Science Foundation Starting Grant project led by Baptiste Le Bihan and employing Annica Vieser, Emilia Margoni and Enrico Cinti aims at articulating and evaluating various conceptions of causation compatible with a fundamentally non-spatiotemporal world. It’s part of the broader project of building a new field of research: the metaphysics of quantum gravity.
Space, Time and Causation in Quantum Gravity 