Spacetime and Conventionalism.

Salmon, following Reichenbach and others, maintained that distant simultaneity was conventional in a special relativistic world in a way in which this was not so in pre-relativistic spacetime. This paper surveys and criticizes a number of proposals to unpack this claim. It goes on to argue that if t...

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Publicado en:Philosophy of Science Vol. 71; no. 5; pp. 950 - 960
Autor principal: Sklar, Lawrence
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Cambridge University Press Dec2004
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