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020			_a9780511621130 (ebook)
020			_z9780521450140 (hardback)
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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aBD632 _b.N45 1994
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100	1		_aNerlich, Graham, _d1929- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe shape of space / _cGraham Nerlich.
250			_aSecond edition.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c1994.
300			_a1 online resource (xv, 290 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505	0	0	_tSpace and spatial relations -- _tPure theories of reduction: Leibniz and Kant -- _tImpure theories of reduction: outlines -- _tMediated spatial relations -- _tSurrogates for mediation -- _tRepresentational relationism -- _tOn understanding -- _tLeibniz and the detachment argument -- _tSeeing places and travelling paths -- _tNon-Euclidean holes -- _tThe concrete and the causal -- _tHands, knees and absolute space -- _tCounterparts and enantiomorphs -- _tKant's pre-critical argument -- _tHands and bodies: relations among objects -- _tHands and parts of space -- _tKnees and space: enantiomorphism and topology -- _tA deeper premise: objects are spatial -- _tDifferent actions of the creative cause -- _tUnmediated handedness -- _tOther responses -- _tEuclidean and other shapes -- _tSpace and shape -- _tNon-Euclidean geometry and the problem of parallels -- _tCurves and surfaces -- _tIntrinsic curvatures and intrinsic geometry -- _tBending, stretching and intrinsic shape -- _tSome curved two-spaces -- _tPerspective and projective geometry -- _tTransformations and invariants -- _tSubgeometries of perspective geometry -- _tGeometrical structures in space and spacetime -- _tThe manifold, coordinates, smoothness, curves -- _tVectors, 1-forms and tensors -- _tProjective and affine structures -- _tAn analytical picture of affine structure -- _tMetrical structure -- _tShapes and the imagination -- _tKant's idea: things look Euclidean -- _tTwo Kantian arguments: the visual challenge -- _tNon-Euclidean perspective: the geometry of vision -- _tReid's non-Euclidean geometry of visibles.
520			_aThis is a revised and updated edition of Graham Nerlich's classic book The Shape of Space. It develops a metaphysical account of space which treats it as a real and concrete entity. In particular, it shows that the shape of space plays a key explanatory role in space and spacetime theories. Arguing that geometrical explanation is very like causal explanation, Professor Nerlich prepares the ground for philosophical argument, and, using a number of novel examples, investigates how different spaces would affect perception differently. This leads naturally to conventionalism as a non-realist metaphysics of space, an account which Professor Nerlich criticises, rejecting its Kantian and positivistic roots along with Reichenbach's famous claim that even the topology of space is conventional. He concludes that there is, in fact, no problem of underdetermination for this aspect of spacetime theories, and offers an extensive discussion of the relativity of motion.
650		0	_aSpace and time.
650		0	_aRelation (Philosophy)
650		0	_aScience _xPhilosophy.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521450140
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511621130
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