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Towards a Theory of Spacetime Theories

by Dennis Lehmkuhl
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781493979981
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 335
  • Original Price: EUR 89.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Softcover Repri
  • Item Weight: 520 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History & Philosophy, Physics / Mathematical & Computational, and Geometry / Differential

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This contributed volume is the result of a July 2010 workshop at the University of Wuppertal Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies which brought together world-wide experts from physics, philosophy and history, in order to address a set of questions first posed in the 1950s: How do we compare spacetime theories? How do we judge, objectively, which is the "best" theory? Is there even a unique answer to this question?

The goal of the workshop, and of this book, is to contribute to the development of a meta-theory of spacetime theories. Such a meta-theory would reveal insights about specific spacetime theories by distilling their essential similarities and differences, deliver a framework for a class of theories that could be helpful as a blueprint to build other meta-theories, and provide a higher level viewpoint for judging which theory most accurately describes nature. But rather than drawing a map in broad strokes, the focus is on particularly rich regions in the "space of spacetime theories."

This work will be of interest to physicists, as well as philosophers and historians of science working with or interested in General Relativity and/or Space, Time and Gravitation more generally.

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