num_pages: 459
description: The essays in this volume are based on the papers given at a conference on the philosophical aspects of the space-time theory held under the auspices of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science.Table of Contents Some Philosophical Prehistory of General Relativity. Howard Stein. Indistinguishable Space-times and the Fundamental Group. Clark Glymour. Observationally Indistinguishable Space-Times: Comments on Glymour’s Paper. David Malament Prediction in General Relativity. Robert Geroch. Time in General Relativity. C J. S. Clarke. Till the End of Time. John Earman. The Causal Theory of Minkowski Space-Time. John Winnie. Facts, Conventions, and Assumptions in the Theory of Space-Time. Lawrence Sklar.Geometry and Observables. Peter G. Bergmann. The Curvature of Physical Space. Wesley C. Salmon. Absolute and Relational Theories of Space-Time. Adolf Grunbaum.On Space-Time Ontology: Extracts from a Letter to Adolf Grunbaum. Howard Stein.Simultaneity in Newtonian Mechanics and Special Relativity. Michael Friedman. On Conventionality of Simultaneity - Another Reply. Peter A. Bowman
language: English
title: Foundations of Space-Time Theories
titlecomplete: Foundations of Space-Time Theories
series: Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science
publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr