On the Cartesian Ontology of General Relativity: Or, Conventionalism in the History of the Substantival-Relational Debate.
Using Einstein's comparison of General Relativity and Descartes' physics, this investigation explores the alleged conventionalism that pervades the ontology of substantival and relationist conceptions of spacetime. Although previously discussed, namely by Rynasiewicz and Hoefer, it will be argued th...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 72; no. 5; pp. 1312 - 1324 |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec2005
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