The ontology of spacetime  [1] ~ 2

edited by Dennis Dieks

The sixteen papers collected in this volume are expanded and revised versions of talks delivered at the Second International Conference on the Ontology of Spacetime, organized by the International Society for the Advanced Study of Spacetime (John Earman, President) at Concordia University (Montreal) from 9 to 11 June 2006. Most chapters are devoted to subjects directly relating to the ontology of spacetime. This book starts with four papers that discuss the ontological status of spacetime and the processes occurring in it from a point of view that is first of all conceptual and philosophical. The focus then slightly shifts in the five papers that follow, to considerations more directly involving technical considerations from relativity theory. After this, Time, Becoming and Change take centre stage in the next five papers. This book ends with two excursions into relatively uncharted territory: a consideration of the status of Kaluza-Klein theory, and an investigation of possible relations between the nature of spacetime and condensed matter physics, respectively. This book discusses space and time in present-day physics and philosophy. It features a relatively low level of technicality and is easily accessible. It offers an introduction from scratch of the debates surrounding time. It features a broad spectrum of approaches, coherently represented.

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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 theory is incompatible with becoming and presentism. Several of them come up with proposals to go beyond relativity, in order to restore the prospects of presentism. This title captures space and time in present-day physics and philosophy. It offers an introduction from scratch of the debates surrounding time. In this title, broad spectrum of approaches, coherently represented.

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[目次]

  • Introduction (D. Dieks) 1. The Implications of General Covariance for the Ontology and Ideology of Spacetime (J. Earman) 2. The Disappearance of Space and Time (C. Rovelli) 3. Spacetime Structuralism (J. Bain) 4. Minkowski Space-Time: A Glorious Non-Entity (H.R. Brown and O. Pooley) 5. The Irrelavance of the Presentist/Eternalist Debate for the Ontology of Minkowski Spacetime (M. Dorato) 6. Presentism and Eternalism in Perspective (S.F. Savitt) 7. Minkowski Spacetime and the Dimensions of the Present (R.T.W. Arthur) 8. Becoming, Relativity and Locality (D. Dieks) 9. Relativity Theory and the Tenseless/Tensed Debate (Y. Dolev) 10. Philosophical Consequences of the Twins Paradox (S. McCall) 11. Is There an Alternative to the Block Universe View? (V. Petkov) 12. Special Relativity, Time, Probabilism, and Ultimate Reality (N. Maxwell) 13. Temporal Presentness and the Dynamics of Spacetime (K.A. Peacock) 14. Presentism and Quantum Gravity (B. Monton)

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書名 The ontology of spacetime
著作者等 Dieks, Dennis Geert Bernardus Johan
International Conference on the Ontology of Spacetime
Redei Miklos
Dieks Dennis
シリーズ名 Philosophy and foundations of physics
巻冊次 [1]
2
出版元 Elsevier
刊行年月 2006-
版表示 1st ed
ページ数 v.
大きさ 25 cm
ISBN 9780444532756
9780444527684
NCID BA79048503
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言語 英語
出版国 オランダ
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