Synopses & Reviews
Table of Contents Some Philosophical Prehistory of General Relativity. Howard Stein. Indistinguishable Space-times and the Fundamental Group. Clark Glymour. Observationally Indistinguishable Space-Times: Comments on Glymours Paper. David Malament Prediction in General Relativity. Robert Geroch. Time in General Relativity. C J. S. Clarke. Till the End of Time. John Earman. The Causal Theory of Minkowski Space-Time. John Winnie. Facts, Conventions, and Assumptions in the Theory of Space-Time. Lawrence Sklar. Geometry and Observables. Peter G. Bergmann. The Curvature of Physical Space. Wesley C. Salmon. Absolute and Relational Theories of Space-Time. Adolf Grunbaum. On Space-Time Ontology: Extracts from a Letter to Adolf Grunbaum. Howard Stein. Simultaneity in Newtonian Mechanics and Special Relativity. Michael Friedman. On Conventionality of Simultaneity - Another Reply. Peter A. Bowman The essays are based on papers given at a conference on philosophical aspects of the space-time theory held under auspices of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science.
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Foundations of Space-Time Theories was first published in 1977. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
The essays in this volume are based on the papers given at a conference on the philosophical aspects of the space-time theory held under the auspices of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science.
About the Author
John J. Stachel is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics at Boston University.