Hans Reichenbach

Defending Einstein

Hans Reichenbach's Writings on Space, Time and Motion
Herausgeber: Gimbel, Steven

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Produktbeschreibung

This text offers an insight into the development of scientific philosophy and the role of the philosopher.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780521371162
• ISBN-10: 0521371163
• Artikelnr.: 33769198

Autorenporträt

Steven Gimbel is associate professor of philosophy at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, where he was named Luther W. and Bernice L. Thompson Distinguished Teacher in 2005. He has contributed to Philosophy of Science, British Journal of Philosophy of Science, and Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics.
Anke Walz is assistant professor of mathematics at Kutztown University. Her work on the bellow's conjecture relating to flexible polyhedral with R. Connely and I. Sabitov has appeared in Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie and has received coverage in Science and Scientific American.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Review of Moritz Schlick's General Theory of Knowledge
2. Einstein's theory of space
3. Reply to H. Dingler's Critique of the Theory of Relativity
4. Report on an axiomatization of Einstein's theory of space-time
5. Reply to Th. Wulf's objections of the general theory of relativity
6. Einstein's theory of motion
7. The theory of relativity and absolute transport time
8. Reply to Anderson's objections to the general theory of relativity
9. Review of Müller's The Philosophical Problems with Einstein's Theory of Relativity
10. The philosophical significance of the theory of relativity
11. Planet clocks and Einsteinian simultaneity
12. On the physical consequences of the axiomatization of relativity
13. Has the theory of relativity been refuted?
14. Response to a publication of Mr. Hj. Mellin.