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9780792337126: Reflections on Spacetime: Foundations, Philosophy, History
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ISBN 10: 0792337123 ISBN 13: 9780792337126
Casa editrice: Springer-Verlag GmbH, 1995

Sinossi

This study presents a collection of research papers, written by physicists, philosophers and historians of science who had participated in the Zentrum fuer interdisziplinare Forschung (ZiF) during the academic year 1992/93 in order to discuss the nature and structure of spacetime as it is used in general relativity. All contributions focus on unsolved questions, such as the possibility of time machines, referential indeterminacy, the hole problem, and the conventional versus empirical character of spacetime. These papers deal with Einstein's view of general covariance and with the epistemological status of space(time) in the works of Carnap, Weyl and Hilbert, all of whom relate their position to Husserl's phenomenology, yet in fundamentally different ways.

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Contenuti

Editorial preface: reflections on spacetime - foundations, philosophy and history. Outlawing time machines: chronology protection theorems; J. Earman. A new semantics for the epistemology of geometry. I: Modeling spacetime structure; R.A. Coleman, H. Korté. A new semantics for the epistemology of geometry. II: Epistemological completeness of Newton-Galilei and Einstein-Maxwell theory; R.A. Coleman, H. Korté. A minimal interpretation of general relativistic spacetime geometry; H.-J. Schmidt. Science without reference? F. Mühlhölzer. Did Einstein stumble? The debate over general covariance; J.D. Norton. Carnap and Weyl on the foundations of geometry and relativity theory; M. Friedman. Geometry, intuition and experience: from Kant to Husserl; U. Majer.

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Editore
Springer-Verlag GmbH
Data di pubblicazione
1995
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0792337123
ISBN 13 
9780792337126
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
2
Numero di pagine
172
Redattore
Schmidt Heinz-Jürgen, Majer Ulrich
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