Reflections on Spacetime: Foundations, Philosophy, History
Author:   Ulrich Majer ,  Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt
Publisher:   Springer
Edition:   Reprinted from ERKENNTNIS 42:2, 1995
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9780792337126


Pages:   165
Publication Date:   31 August 1995
Format:   Hardback
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Reflections on Spacetime: Foundations, Philosophy, History


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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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Author:   Ulrich Majer ,  Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Reprinted from ERKENNTNIS 42:2, 1995
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.940kg
ISBN:  

9780792337126


ISBN 10:   0792337123
Pages:   165
Publication Date:   31 August 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Outlawing Time Machines: Chronology Protection Theorems.- A New Semantics for the Epistemology of Geometry. I: Modeling Spacetime Structure.- A New Semantics for the Epistemology of Geometry. II: Epistemological Completeness of Newton—Galilei and Einstein—Maxwell Theory.- A Minimal Interpretation of General Relativistic Spacetime Geometry.- Science without Reference?.- Did Einstein Stumble? The Debate over General Covariance.- Carnap and Weyl on the Foundations of Geometry and Relativity Theory.- Geometry, Intuition and Experience: From Kant to Husserl.

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