World Enough and Space-Time
Absolute Versus Relational Theories of Space and Time
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 10693588 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Robert Toretti, John Earman |
| Ano | 1992 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 723 |
| Data de publicação | 1992-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Editora | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2186093 |
| OpenAlex | W1968716599 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 51 |
Newton's Principia introduced conceptions of space and time that launched one of the most famous and sustained debates in the history of physics, a controversy that involves fundamental concerns in the foundations of physics, metaphysics, and scientific epistemology.This book introduces and clarifies the historical and philosophical development of the clash between Newton's absolute conception of space and Leibniz's relational one. It separates the issues and provides new perspectives on absolute relational accounts of motion and relational-substantival accounts of the ontology of space time.Earman's sustained treatment and imaginative insights raise to a new level the debate on these important issues at the boundary of philosophy and physics. He surveys the history of the controversy from Newton to Einstein develops the mathematics and physics needed to pose the issues in sharp form and provides a persuasive assessment of the philosophical problems involved.Most importantly, Earman revitalizes the connection of the debate to contemporary science. He shows, for example, how concerns raised by Leibniz form the core of ongoing debate on the foundations of general theory of relativity, moving the discussion into a new and vital arena and introducing arguments that will be discussed for years to come.John Earman is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. A Bradford Book
Absolute (philosophy) · Absolute time and space · Epistemology · Physics · Quantum mechanics · Space (punctuation) · Spacetime · Theoretical physics · Theory of relativity · Historical Philosophy and Science · History and Developments in Astronomy · History of Science and Medicine · Philosophy
Limits to ‘thinking space relationally’
Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Elements in Hume
Understanding space-time
Cartography of the space of theories
Sounds Like Light
Prospects for a new account of time reversal
Erich Kretschmann as a proto-logical-empiricist
Parity violation in weak interactions
What is ontic structural realism
A new spin on the hole argument
Mach׳s principle as action-at-a-distance in GR
Dark matter = modified gravity? Scrutinising the spacetime–matter distinction through the modified gravity/ dark matter lens
Unweyling Three Mysteries of Nordström Gravity
Definitions more geometrarum and Newton's scholium on space and time
Drawing the line between kinematics and dynamics in special relativity
Symmetries and the philosophy of language
Penser ensemble le temps et l’espace
The construal of space in different registers
Phase space
From Scientific Structuralism to Transcendental Structuralism
Language and Space
Possible Worlds and the Objective World
A Minimal Metaphysics for Scientific Practice
Individuals
Gauge and Ghosts
A Puzzle about Laws, Symmetries and Measurability
Truth, Sentential Non-Compositionalit, and Ontology
Regularity Relationalism and the Constructivist Project
On the Existence of Spacetime Structure
Symmetry as an Epistemic Notion (Twice Over)
On the Structure of Classical Mechanics
Relationalism Rehabilitated? I
Space and Relativity in Newton and Leibniz
The Lessons of the Hole Argument
Quantum Mechanics on Spacetime I
Presentism and Relativity
Mass–Energy–Momentum
A Tale of Two Equations Ludi Vitae or Motus Vita
Undeformable Bodies that are Not Rigid Bodies
The physics and the philosophy of time reversal in standard quantum mechanics
On the ontology of particle mass and energy in special relativity
Impure concepts and non-qualitative properties
World enough and form
Sophistry about symmetries
A formal system for classical particle mechanics, its model-theoretic applications and space-time structure
On Where Things Could Be
What Do Symmetries Tell Us about Structure
Rings, Holes and Substantivalism
How to Defeat Wüthrich's Abysmal Embarrassment Argument against Space-Time Structuralism
Is there a Syntactic Solution to the Hole Problem
On the Distinction Between Absolute and Relative Motion
| Obras citantes distintas | 51 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 1,5 |
| Intervalo de citações | 1992 - 2022 (31) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 29 |