Time, space, and philosophy /
This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible introduction to the philosophy of space and time. Ray considers in detail the central questions of space and time which arizse from the ideas of Zeno, Newton, Mach, Leibniz and Einstein. Time, Space and Philosophy extends the debate in ma...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1991.
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Colección: | Philosophical issues in science.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter INTRODUCTION
- chapter 1 ZENO AND THE LIMITS OF SPACE AND TIME
- chapter 2 CLOCKS, GEOMETRY AND RELATIVITY
- chapter 3 TRAVELLING LIGHT
- chapter 4 A CONVENTIONAL WORLD?
- chapter 5 NEWTON AND THE REALITY OF SPACE AND TIME
- chapter 6 MACH AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
- chapter 7 EINSTEIN AND ABSOLUTE SPACETIME
- chapter 8 TIME TRAVEL
- chapter 9 EINSTEIN'S GREATEST MISTAKE?
- chapter 10 COSMOLOGICAL CONUNDRUMS.