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work_rxiajqom3nbivk3umargujel44	Syman Stevens	The Dynamical Approach as Practical Geometry	2015	28	.pdf	application/pdf	6530	460	55	This essay introduces Harvey Brown and Oliver Pooley's 'dynamical approach' of Einstein's 'practical geometry', according to which Minkowski geometrical Brown's work is not the ontological status of spacetime, the dynamical approach to symmetries of the dynamical laws somehow account for its geometrical structure.3 7The viability of such a 'traditional' relationalist approach to Minkowski spacetime structure is explored by Earman (1989, §6.10), Maudlin (1993, §5), and Pooley The question at hand is this: if Minkowskian geometrical structure is to supervene upon the behavior of material objects that act in accord with Lorentz-covariant of Minkowski geometry determines its metrical structure up to scale, causal relations are also banned from the ideology.10 Thus the dynamical approach must be geometrical primitives and the material world, 'pure' geometry itself provides no As Skow notes, Brown seems to reject the 'practical geometry' approach in its Physical relativity: Space-time structure from a dynamical	./cache/work_rxiajqom3nbivk3umargujel44.pdf	./txt/work_rxiajqom3nbivk3umargujel44.txt