A new chapter by Antonio Vassallo, “Relationalism about Space and Time: Revisiting an Unfinished Revolution,” has been published in The Forgotten Giants: Overlooked Revolutions in Natural Philosophy (Springer, 2026). The chapter reassesses the Leibnizian/Machian tradition of relationalism in light of recent developments in physics and metaphysics, focusing in particular on Pure Shape Dynamics and the metaphysics of self-subsisting structures as resources for a modern relational account of space, time, and dynamics.
A Machian Framework for Quantum Physics
An inquiry into space, time, and the "quantumenss" of the world