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On Coordinate-Based and Coordinate-Free Approaches to Maxwellian Spacetime.

I discuss and clarify the relationship between the recent wave of "intrinsic" coordinate-free approaches to Maxwell gravitation and the coordinate-based discussions of Saunders (2013) and Wallace (2020).

Published in:Philosophy of Science Vol. 92; no. 4; pp. 1004 - 1022
Main Author: March, Eleanor
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press Oct2025
Subjects:
General relativity (Physics)
Electromagnetic theory
Mathematical physics
Periodical articles
Scholarly publishing
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:I discuss and clarify the relationship between the recent wave of "intrinsic" coordinate-free approaches to Maxwell gravitation and the coordinate-based discussions of Saunders (2013) and Wallace (2020).