Semantical Aspects of Spacetime Theories
Author | : Ulrich Majer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Relativity (Physics) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ulrich Majer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Relativity (Physics) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dennis Lehmkuhl |
Publisher | : Birkhäuser |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2017-01-05 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1493932101 |
This contributed volume is the result of a July 2010 workshop at the University of Wuppertal Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies which brought together world-wide experts from physics, philosophy and history, in order to address a set of questions first posed in the 1950s: How do we compare spacetime theories? How do we judge, objectively, which is the “best” theory? Is there even a unique answer to this question? The goal of the workshop, and of this book, is to contribute to the development of a meta-theory of spacetime theories. Such a meta-theory would reveal insights about specific spacetime theories by distilling their essential similarities and differences, deliver a framework for a class of theories that could be helpful as a blueprint to build other meta-theories, and provide a higher level viewpoint for judging which theory most accurately describes nature. But rather than drawing a map in broad strokes, the focus is on particularly rich regions in the “space of spacetime theories.” This work will be of interest to physicists, as well as philosophers and historians of science working with or interested in General Relativity and/or Space, Time and Gravitation more generally.
Author | : John Earman |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1977-11-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0816657521 |
Foundations of Space-Time Theories was first published in 1977. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The essays in this volume are based on the papers given at a conference on the philosophical aspects of the space-time theory held under the auspices of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science.
Author | : Robert DiSalle |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2006-04-27 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781139452663 |
Presenting the history of space-time physics, from Newton to Einstein, as a philosophical development DiSalle reflects our increasing understanding of the connections between ideas of space and time and our physical knowledge. He suggests that philosophy's greatest impact on physics has come about, less by the influence of philosophical hypotheses, than by the philosophical analysis of concepts of space, time and motion, and the roles they play in our assumptions about physical objects and physical measurements. This way of thinking leads to interpretations of the work of Newton and Einstein and the connections between them. It also offers ways of looking at old questions about a priori knowledge, the physical interpretation of mathematics, and the nature of conceptual change. Understanding Space-Time will interest readers in philosophy, history and philosophy of science, and physics, as well as readers interested in the relations between physics and philosophy.
Author | : Lawrence Sklar |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780520061804 |
Author | : Mark Burgess |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 2019-06-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780359701575 |
The modern scientific ideas of space and time have been handed down to us from a long history of philosophical ideas, and they have gone through many revisions. Yet many of those ideas have been turned completely upside down by Information Technology, and modern biology. Quantum physics and Einstein's Theory Of Relativity made us rethink them again in the 20th century, and have attached an almost mystical significance to spacetime phenomena---but have we really made too much of their strangeness, and take too narrow a view? Might the much-told weirdnesses of quantum theory and relativity, in fact, have straightforward explanations? Will we meet them again in the growing computing cloud? Evidence amassing in the vast computer systems that power the Internet suggest that this may be the case, as similar phenomena begin to emerge from a far more mundane and accessible source.
Author | : Luca Lusanna |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2019-07-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1108480829 |
Describes global non-inertial frames in special and general relativity and provides a detailed description of mathematical methods.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2006-07-10 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0080461883 |
This book contains selected papers from the First International Conference on the Ontology of Spacetime. Its fourteen chapters address two main questions: first, what is the current status of the substantivalism/relationalism debate, and second, what about the prospects of presentism and becoming within present-day physics and its philosophy? The overall tenor of the four chapters of the book's first part is that the prospects of spacetime substantivalism are bleak, although different possible positions remain with respect to the ontological status of spacetime. Part II and Part III of the book are devoted to presentism, eternalism, and becoming, from two different perspectives. In the six chapters of Part II it is argued, in different ways, that relativity theory does not have essential consequences for these issues. It certainly is true that the structure of time is different, according to relativity theory, from the one in classical theory. But that does not mean that a decision is forced between presentism and eternalism, or that becoming has proved to be an impossible concept. It may even be asked whether presentism and eternalism really offer different ontological perspectives at all. The writers of the last four chapters, in Part III, disagree. They argue that relativity theory is incompatible with becoming and presentism. Several of them come up with proposals to go beyond relativity, in order to restore the prospects of presentism.· Space and time in present-day physics and philosophy · Introduction from scratch of the debates surrounding time · Broad spectrum of approaches, coherently represented
Author | : Nick Huggett |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2020-05-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 110847702X |
A collection of essays discussing the philosophy and foundations of quantum gravity. Written by leading philosophers and physicists in the field, chapters cover the important conceptual questions in the search for a quantum theory of gravity, and the current state of understanding among philosophers and physicists.
Author | : Meinard Kuhlmann |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2002-11-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9814487333 |
Quantum field theory (QFT) provides the framework for many fundamental theories in modern physics, and over the last few years there has been growing interest in its historical and philosophical foundations. This anthology on the foundations of QFT brings together 15 essays by well-known researchers in physics, the philosophy of physics, and analytic philosophy.Many of these essays were first presented as papers at the conference “Ontological Aspects of Quantum Field Theory”, held at the Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF), Bielefeld, Germany. The essays contain cutting-edge work on ontological aspects of QFT, including: the role of measurement and experimental evidence, corpuscular versus field-theoretic interpretations of QFT, the interpretation of gauge symmetry, and localization.This book is ideally suited to anyone with an interest in the foundations of quantum physics, including physicists, philosophers and historians of physics, as well as general readers interested in philosophy or science.