Presentism and Relativity
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| ID | 8397992 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Yuri Balashov (0000-0001-7369-2122), Michel Janssen (0000-0002-7018-148X) |
| Ano | 2003 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 327-346 |
| Data de publicação | 2003-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0007-0882 • E-ISSN: 1464-3537 |
| Editora | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjps/54.2.327 |
| OpenAlex | W2141394652 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 40 |
| Referências citadas | 22 |
In this critical notice we argue against William Craig's recent attempt to reconcile presentism (roughly, the view that only the present is real) with relativity theory. Craig's defense of his position boils down to endorsing a ‘neo‐Lorentzian interpretation’ of special relativity. We contend that his reconstruction of Lorentz's theory and its historical development is fatally flawed and that his arguments for reviving this theory fail on many counts.1Rival theories of time2Relativity and the present3Special relativity: one theory, three interpretations4Theories of principle and constructive theories5The relativity interpretation: explanatorily deficient?6The relativity interpretation: ontologically fragmented?7The space‐time interpretation: does God need a preferred frame of reference?8The neo‐Lorentzian interpretation: at what price?9The neo‐Lorentzian interpretation: with what payoff?10Why we should prefer the space‐time interpretation over the neo‐Lorentzian interpretation11What about general relativity?12Squaring the tenseless space‐time interpretation with our tensed experience
Epistemology · Four-force · Interpretation (philosophy) · Physics · Presentism · Principle of relativity · Special relativity · Test theories of special relativity · Tests of special relativity · Theoretical physics · Theory of relativity · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Quantum Mechanics and Applications · Relativity and Gravitational Theory
Time and the metaphysics of relativity
Prospects for a new account of time reversal
Length matters
How to be a realist about Minkowski spacetime without believing in magical explanations
The Language and Reality of Time
Physical Relativity
Conventionalism in Early Analytic Philosophy and the Principle of Relativity
Reconstructing William Lane Craig’s Explanation of Absolute Time Based on Mulla Sadra’s Philosophy
Eternalism and the problem of hyperplanes
Temporal Ersatzism and Relativity
Two kinds of theory
Structural realism and theory classification
Conservation, inertia, and spacetime geometry
Explanation, analyticity and constitutive principles in spacetime theories
How did Lorentz find his theorem of corresponding states
Two miracles of general relativity
Principle or constructive relativity
The dynamical approach to spin-2 gravity
How could relativity be anything other than physical
On the empirical equivalence between special relativity and Lorentz׳s ether theory
Physical relativity from a functionalist perspective
Re-conceiving quantum theories in terms of information-theoretic constraints
Drawing the line between kinematics and dynamics in special relativity
Minkowski spacetime and Lorentz invariance
‘Like thermodynamics before Boltzmann.’ On the emergence of Einstein's distinction between constructive and principle theories
Quantum theory is not only about information
Presentism and representation
Dynamical versus structural explanations in scientific revolutions
Wave-functionalism
Explanation, understanding, and control
Getting tense about relativity
Scientific Explanation between Principle and Constructive Theories
On Kinematic versus Dynamic Approaches to Special Relativity
The Non-equivalence of Einstein and Lorentz
Why Constructive Relativity Fails
Are There Non-Causal Explanations (of Particular Events)
Philosophical Issues in Electromagnetism
Temporal ersatzism
Relativity and Three Four-dimensionalisms
Time, physics, and philosophy
Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie
Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper
The Symbolic Universe. Geometry and Physics 1890–1930
The end of time
Definition, Convention, and Simultaneity
Did Malament Prove the Non-Conventionality of Simultaneity in the Special Theory of Relativity
Temporal Parts Unmotivated
The Scientific Image
Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World
World Enough and Space-Time
World Enough and Space-Time
Why did Einstein's Programme supersede Lorentz's? (I)
Length Contraction and Clock Synchronisation
| Obras citantes distintas | 40 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 1,74 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2003 - 2025 (23) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 36 |