The Reign of Relativity

Philosophy in Physics 1915-1925

Thomas Ryckman

320 pages, parution le 08/03/2005

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Einstein's theory of 'general relativity' (1915) was a defining event for 20th century philosophy of science. During the decisive first ten years of the theory's existence, two main ideas dominated its philosophical reception. Ryckman's book is an extended argument that the path actually taken, which became the philosophy of logical empiricism, greatly contributed to the current impasse over scientific realism - whereas new possibilities are opened up in reviving the spirit of the more sophisticated strain, termed transcendental idealism. It also emerges that Einstein, while paying lip service to the former, ended up actually siding with the latter. Ryckman's book appeals to several groups, among them: philosophers of science, historians of relativity, and philosophers of physics.

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General Covariance and the "Relativized A Priori": Two Roads from Kant
1921: "Critical or Empiricist Interpretation of the New Physics?"
Einstein Agonists'. Weyl and Reichenbach
Transcendental-Phenomenological Idealism: Husserl and Weyl
Weyl's "Purely Infinitesimal" Constitution of Field Physics
"World Building": Structuralism and Transcendental Idealism in Eddington
Geometrizing Physics: Eddington's Theory of the Affine Field
Epilogue: The "Geometrization of Physics" and Transcendental Idealism

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Thomas Ryckman
Parution	08/03/2005
Nb. de pages	320
Format	16 x 24,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	612g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780195177176
ISBN13	978-0-19-517717-6