Reflections on Spacetime: Foundations, Philosophy, History
Author:   Ulrich Majer ,  Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt
Publisher:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1995
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9789048146123


Pages:   165
Publication Date:   01 December 2010
Format:   Paperback
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This book presents a collection of research papers, written by physicists, philosophers and historians of science who had participated in the Zentrum fur 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 vs. empirical character of spacetime. These papers having a more historical colour 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:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1995
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9789048146123


ISBN 10:   9048146127
Pages:   165
Publication Date:   01 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   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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