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In this book Rickles considers several interpretative difficulties raised by gauge-type symmetries (those that correspond to no change in physical state). The ubiquity of such symmetries in modern physics renders them an urgent topic in philosophy of physics. Rickles focuses on spacetime physics, an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rickles, Dean
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Netherlands : Elsevier, [2008]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Philosophy and foundations of physics ; v. 3.
Subjects:
Symmetry (Physics)
Space and time.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Interpretation and Formalism
  • 2 Space and Time in the Leibniz-Clarke Debate
  • 3 The Interpretation of Gauge Symmetries
  • 4 Spacetime in General Relativity
  • 5 Responding to the Hole Problem
  • 6 What is an Observable In General Relativity?
  • 7 Time, Change, and Gauge
  • 8 Symmetry and Ontology
  • 9 Structuralism and Symmetry.