Classical Spacetime Structure
History and Philosophy of Physics
2017-07-20 v1
Abstract
I discuss several issues related to "classical" spacetime structure. I review Galilean, Newtonian, and Leibnizian spacetimes, and briefly describe more recent developments. The target audience is undergraduates and early graduate students in philosophy; the presentation avoids mathematical formalism as much as possible.
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@article{arxiv.1707.05887,
title = {Classical Spacetime Structure},
author = {James Owen Weatherall},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.05887},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
20 pages, 3 figures. Prepared for the Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics, edited by Eleanor Knox and Alastair Wilson