Space, Time, and Spacetime
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Space, Time, and Spacetime

  1. 400 pages
  2. English
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Space, Time, and Spacetime

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In this book, Lawrence Sklar demonstrates the interdependence of science and philosophy by examining a number of crucial problems on the nature of space and timeā€”problems that require for their resolution the resources of philosophy and of physics. The overall issues explored are our knowledge of the geometry of the world, the existence of spacetime as an entity over and above the material objects of the world, the relation between temporal order and causal order, and the problem of the direction of time. Without neglecting the most subtle philosophical points or the most advanced contributions of contemporary physics, the author has taken pains to make his explorations intelligible to the reader with no advanced training in physics, mathematics, or philosophy. The arguments are set forth step-by-step, beginning from first principles; and the philosophical discussions are supplemented in detail by nontechnical expositions of crucial features of physical theories.
In this book, Lawrence Sklar demonstrates the interdependence of science and philosophy by examining a number of crucial problems on the nature of space and timeā€”problems that require for their resolution the resources of philosophy and of physics.
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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780520031746
eBook ISBN
9780520340701
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Political Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. CONTENTS 1
  5. BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR CHAPTER I
  6. SECTION A SOME PRELIMINARY REMARKS
  7. SECTION B AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF GEOMETRY
  8. SECTION C SPACE AND TIME VERSUS SPACETIMEā€” A PRELIMINARY ACCOUNT
  9. SECTION D THE PHYSICAL POSSIBILITY OF A NON-EUCLIDEAN WORLD
  10. SECTION E SOME OLDER EPISTEMOLOGICAL VIEWS ABOUT GEOMETRY
  11. SECTION F THE CONVENTIONALIST THESIS AND ITS FIRST CRITICS
  12. SECTION G SOME VARYING VIEWS ON CONVENTIONALISM
  13. SECTION H THE FRAMEWORK OF PHILOSOPHICAL PERPLEXITY
  14. BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR CHAPTER 11
  15. SOME PRELIMINARY REMARKS
  16. SECTION B THE TRADITIONAL ONTOLOGICAL DISPUTE
  17. SECTION C NEWTON AND HIS CRITICS
  18. SECTION D THE EVOLUTION OF PHYSICS AND THE PROBLEM OF SUBSTANTIVAL SPACE
  19. SECTION E GENERAL RELATIVITY AND THE PROBLEM OF SUBSTANTIVAL SPACETIME
  20. SECTION F ABSOLUTE MOTION AND SUBSTANTIVAL SPACETIMEā€”A PHILOSOPHICAL CRITIQUE
  21. BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR CHAPTER III
  22. SECTION A PRELIMINARY REMARKS
  23. SECTION B ORIGINS AND FEATURES OF THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
  24. SECTION C CAUSAL ORDER AND TEMPORAL ORDER IN SPECIAL RELATIVITY
  25. SECTION D CAUSAL ORDER AND TEMPORAL ORDER IN GENERAL RELATIVITY
  26. SECTION E THE CAUSAL THEORY OF TIME
  27. BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR CHAPTER IV
  28. SECTION A THE PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND
  29. SECTION B LAWLIKE SYMMETRIES IN PHYSICS
  30. SECTION C SOME DE FACTO IRREVERSIBLE PROCESSES
  31. SECTION D ASPECTS OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS
  32. SECTION E TIME ORIENTABILITY AND THE DIRECTION OF TIME
  33. SECTION F ASYMMETRY IN TIME AND THE ASYMMETRY OF TIME
  34. BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR CHAPTER V
  35. EPILOGUE
  36. INDEX