TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nerlich,Graham
TI  - What spacetime explains: metaphysical essays on space and time 
SN  - 9780511554537 (ebook)
AV  - BD632 .N47 1994
U1  - 115 20
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Space and time
KW  - Relativity (Physics)
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); pt. 1. Ontology and methodology in relativity. 1. On Learning from the mistakes of Positivists. 2. What ontology can be about / Graham Nerlich and Andrew Westwell-Roper. 3. Special Relativity is not based on causality. 4. Simultaneity and convention in Special Relativity. 5. Motion and change of distance -- pt. 2. Variable curvature and General Relativity. 6. How Euclidean geometry has misled metaphysics. 7. What can geometry explain? 8. Is Curvature intrinsic to physical space? 9. Holes in the hole argument -- pt. 3. Time and causation. 10. Can time be finite? 11. How to make things have happened
N2  - Graham Nerlich is one of the most distinguished of contemporary philosophers of space and time. Eleven of his essays are here brought together in a carefully structured volume, which deal with ontology and methodology in relativity, variable curvature and general relativity, and time and causation. The author has provided a new general introduction and also introductions to each part to bring the discussion more up to date and draw out the general themes. The book will be welcomed by all philosophers of physics, and of science in general
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511554537
ER  -