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The ontology of spacetime II /
The sixteen papers collected in this volume are expanded and revised versions of talks delivered at the Second International Conference on the Ontology of Spacetime, organized by the International Society for the Advanced Study of Spacetime (John Earman, President) at Concordia University (Montreal)...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores Corporativos: | , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier Science,
2008.
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| Colección: | Philosophy and foundations of physics ;
v. 4. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. A Trope-Bundle Ontology for Field-Theory, A. Wayne
- 2. Is Structural Realism Relationism in Disguise? The Supererogatory Nature of the Substantivalism/Relationism Debate, M. Dorato
- 3. Identity, Spacetime and Cosmology, J. Faye
- 4. Persistence and Multilocation in Spacetime, Yu. Balashov
- 5. Is Spacetime a Gravitational Field?, D. Lehmkuhl
- 6. Structural Aspects of the Singular Features of Space-Time, V. Lam
- 7. Who's Afraid of Background Independence?, D. Rickles
- 8. Understanding Indeterminism, C. Brighouse
- 9. Conventionality of Simultaneity and Reality, V. Petkov
- 10. Pruning Some Branches from Branching Spacetimes, J. Earman
- 11. Time Lapse and the Degeneracy of Time: Goedel, Proper Time and Becoming in Relativity Theory, R.T.W. Arthur
- 12. On Temporal Becoming, Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics, T. Bigaj
- 13. Relativity, the Passage of Time and the Cosmic Clock, P. Forrest
- 14. Time and Relation in Relativity and Quantum Gravity, A. de Saint-Ours
- 15. Mechanisms of Unification in Kaluza-Klein Theory, I. Muntean
- 16. Condensed Matter Physics and the Nature of Spacetime, J. Bain.