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The ontology of spacetime /
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 wi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier,
2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Philosophy and foundations of physics ;
v. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction (D. Dieks)
- 1. The Implications of General Covariance for the Ontology and Ideology of Spacetime (J. Earman)
- 2. The Disappearance of Space and Time (C. Rovelli)
- 3. Spacetime Structuralism (J. Bain)
- 4. Minkowski Space-Time: A Glorious Non-Entity (H.R. Brown and O. Pooley)
- 5. The Irrelavance of the Presentist/Eternalist Debate for the Ontology of Minkowski Spacetime (M. Dorato)
- 6. Presentism and Eternalism in Perspective (S.F. Savitt)
- 7. Minkowski Spacetime and the Dimensions of the Present (R.T.W. Arthur)
- 8. Becoming, Relativity and Locality (D. Dieks)
- 9. Relativity Theory and the Tenseless/Tensed Debate (Y. Dolev)
- 10. Philosophical Consequences of the Twins Paradox (S. McCall)
- 11. Is There an Alternative to the Block Universe View? (V. Petkov)
- 12. Special Relativity, Time, Probabilism, and Ultimate Reality (N. Maxwell)
- 13. Temporal Presentness and the Dynamics of Spacetime (K.A. Peacock)
- 14. Presentism and Quantum Gravity (B. Monton).