Elsevier Science Ltd 2006 Hardcover New 1st edition. 287 pages. 10.00x7.00x0.75 inches.

ISBN10: 0444527680, ISBN13: 9780444527684, [publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology, Elsevier Science] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book contains selected papers from the First International Conference on the Ontology of Spacetime. Its fourteen chapters address two main questions: first, what is the current status of the substantivalism/relationalism debate, and second, what about the prospects of presentism and becoming within present-day physics and its philosophy The overall tenor of the four chapters of the book's first part is that the prospects of spacetime substantivalism are bleak, although different possible positions remain with respect to the ontological status of spacetime. Part II and Part III of the book are devoted to presentism, eternalism, and becoming, from two different perspectives. In the six chapters of Part II it is argued, in different ways, that relativity theory does not have essential consequences for these issues. It certainly is true that the structure of time is different, according to relativity theory, from the one in classical theory. But that does not mean that a decision is forced between presentism and eternalism, or that becoming has proved to be an impossible concept. It may even be asked whether presentism and eternalism really offer different ontological perspectives at all. The writers of the last four chapters, in Part III, disagree. They argue that relativity ...
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Amsterdam, Netherlands Elsevier Science 2006 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 306 p. Contains: Unspecified. Philosophy and Foundations of Physics, 1.

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Elsevier Science Ltd, Date: 2006. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 287 pages. 10.00x7.00x0.75 inches. 2006. Elsevier Science Ltd ISBN 0444527680 9780444527684 [GB]