What Spacetime Explains: Metaphysical Essays on Space and Time

ISBN: 9780521044035 出版年：1994 页码：299 Graham Nerlich Cambridge University Press

Preface Introduction Part I. Ontology and Methodology in Relativity: 1. On learning from the mistakes of Positivists 2. What ontology can be about with Andrew Westwell-Roper 3. Special relativity is not based on causality 3. Simultaneity and convention in special relativity 5. Motion and change of distance Part II. 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 Part III. Time and Causation: 10. Can time be finite? 11. How to make things have happened Bibliography Index.