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What Spacetime Explains Graham Nerlich

What Spacetime Explains By Graham Nerlich

What Spacetime Explains by Graham Nerlich


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Eleven of Graham Nerlich's essays are here brought together in a carefully structured volume, dealing with ontology and methodology in relativity, variable curvature and general relativity, and time and causation.

What Spacetime Explains Summary

What Spacetime Explains: Metaphysical Essays on Space and Time by Graham Nerlich

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 more up to date and draw out the general themes. The book will be welcomed by all philosophers of physics, and of science in general.

What Spacetime Explains Reviews

"Nerlich, a well-established philosopher of space and time, has provided a set of erudite and highly technical essays that will prove richly rewarding for scholars of the philosophy of space and time....a presentation of value for those who already know relativity and wish to know more about the metaphysical subtleties of its meaning." Choice
"...the essays in this book constitute an important and thoughtful contribution to the philosophy of space and time. The author presents incisive treatments of a number of long-standing and crucial issues." Lawrence Sklar, Mathematical Reviews

Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; Part I. Ontology and Methodology in Relativity: 1. On learning from the mistakes of Positivists; 2. What ontology can be about with Andrew Westwell-Roper; 3. Special relativity is not based on causality; 3. Simultaneity and convention in special relativity; 5. Motion and change of distance; Part II. Variable Curvature and General Relativity: 6. How Euclidean geometry has misled metaphysics; 7. What can geometry explain?; 8. Is curvature intrinsic to physical space?; 9. Holes in the hole argument; Part III. Time and Causation: 10. Can time be finite?; 11. How to make things have happened; Bibliography; Index.

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NPB9780521452618
9780521452618
0521452619
What Spacetime Explains: Metaphysical Essays on Space and Time by Graham Nerlich
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
1994-08-04
300
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