Are Newtonian gravitation and geometrized Newtonian gravitation theoretically equivalent?
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Publication:1706751
DOI10.1007/S10670-015-9783-5zbMATH Open1386.83023arXiv1411.5757OpenAlexW1821349099MaRDI QIDQ1706751FDOQ1706751
Authors: James Owen Weatherall 
Publication date: 28 March 2018
Published in: Erkenntnis (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: I argue that a criterion of theoretical equivalence due to Clark Glymour [Nous 11(3), 227-251 (1977)] does not capture an important sense in which two theories may be equivalent. I then motivate and state an alternative criterion that does capture the sense of equivalence I have in mind. The principal claim of the paper is that relative to this second criterion, the answer to the question posed in the title is "yes", at least on one natural understanding of Newtonian gravitation.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.5757
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