Full Idea
In general, it seems to me that recent developments in both philosophy and physics have made substantivalism a much more attractive position than it once was.
Gist of Idea
Both philosophy and physics now make substantivalism more attractive
Source
Hartry Field (Science without Numbers [1980], 4)
Book Reference
Field,Hartry: 'Science without Number' [Blackwell 1980], p.35
A Reaction
I'm intrigued as to what philosophical developments are involved in this. The arrival of fields is the development in physics.
Related Idea
Idea 18202 The concept of a field gradually replaced the substances in explaining relations between charges [Einstein/Infeld]