{"product_id":"towards-a-theory-of-spacetime-theories-9781493979981","title":"Towards a Theory of Spacetime Theories","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dennis Lehmkuhl\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Philosophy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45276730491031,"sku":"9781493979981","price":6610.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781493979981.webp?v=1769286474","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/towards-a-theory-of-spacetime-theories-9781493979981","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}