Space, Time, and Spacetime

Name: Space, Time, and Spacetime
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ISBN: 9780520031746

ISBN-10: 0520031741

ISBN-13: 9780520031746

Edition: 1977

Authors: Lawrence Sklar

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In this book, Lawrence Sklar demonstrates the interdependence of science and philosophy by examining a number of crucial problems on the nature of space and time--problems that require for their resolution the resources of philosophy and of physics. The overall issues explored are our knowledge of the geometry of the world, the existence of spacetime as an entity over and above the material objects of the world, the relation between temporal order and causal order, and the problem of the direction of time. Without neglecting the most subtle philosophical points or the most advanced contributions of contemporary physics, the author has taken pains to make his explorations intelligible to the…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1977
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/15/1977
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English