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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: ontology of spacetime
  name:
    name part: International Conference on the Ontology of Spacetime 2004 : Montréal, Québec)
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Dieks, Dennis Geert Bernardus Johan.
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: conference publication
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: proceedings (reports)
  genre: Conference papers and proceedings
  genre: Conference papers and proceedings.
  genre: Actes de congrès.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2006
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 287 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: 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 books 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. Space and time in present-day physics and philosophy Introduction from scratch of the debates surrounding time Broad spectrum of approaches, coherently represented.
  table of contents: 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).
  note: edited by Dennis Dieks.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Space and time
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Ontology
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Ontologie
    genre: Congrès
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Physics
    topic: Relativity
  subject:
    topic: Ontology
  subject:
    topic: Space and time
  subject:
    topic: Ontologie (filosofie)
  subject:
    topic: Ruimte-tijd-theorie
  classification: QC173.59.S65 I58 2004eb
  classification: 530.11
  classification: 115
  classification: 08.35
  classification: 08.31
  classification: 33.02
  classification: 33.21
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      language term: eng