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Title: Foundations of Space Time Theories
Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr, Minneapolis, MN
Publication Date: 1977
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0816608075
ISBN 13: 9780816608072
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: No Edition Stated.
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

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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.

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 Glymour’s 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

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