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9780521044035

What Spacetime Explains: Metaphysical Essays on Space and Time

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521044035

  • ISBN10:

    0521044030

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-11-26
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

Graham Nerlich is one of the most distinguished of contemporary philosophers of space and time. Eleven of his essays are here brought together in a carefully structured volume, which deal with ontology and methodology in relativity, variable curvature and general relativity, and time and causation. The author has provided a new general introduction and also introductions to each part to bring the discussion up to date and draw out the general themes. The book will be welcomed by all philosophers of physics, and of science in general.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Ontology and Methodology in Relativity
On learning from the mistakes of Positivists
What ontology can be about with Andrew Westwell-Roper
Special relativity is not based on causality
Simultaneity and convention in special relativity
Motion and change of distance
Variable Curvature and General Relativity
How Euclidean geometry has misled metaphysics
What can geometry explain
Is curvature intrinsic to physical space
Holes in the hole argument
Time and Causation
Can time be finite
How to make things have happened
Bibliography
Index
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