Why Constructive Relativity Fails.

Constructivists, such as Harvey Brown, urge that the geometries of Newtonian and special relativistic spacetimes result from the properties of matter. Whatever this may mean, it commits constructivists to the claim that these spacetime geometries can be inferred from the properties of matter without...

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Published in:	British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol. 59; no. 4; pp. 821 - 835
Main Author:	Norton, John D.
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Chicago Press Dec2008
Subjects:	Relativity Constructivism (Philosophy) Brown, Harvey Geometry Operationalism
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost