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...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 76; no. 3; pp. 404 - 422 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jul2009
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