Essay Review: Physical Relativity and Understanding Space-Time.

The two books discussed here make important contributions to our understanding of the role of spacetime concepts in physical theories and how that understanding has changed during the evolution of physics. Both emphasize what can be called a 'dynamical' account, according to which geometric structur...

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Published in:	Philosophy of Science Vol. 76; no. 3; pp. 404 - 422
Main Author:	Huggett, Nick
Format:	Book Review
Published:	Cambridge University Press Jul2009
Subjects:	Physical Relativity: Space-Time Structure From a Dynamical Perspective (Book) Understanding Space-Time: The Philosophical Development of Physics From Newton to Einstein (Book) Brown, Harvey R. Disalle, Robert Nonfiction
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