How could relativity be anything other than physical?

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2017.05.007MaRDI QIDQ2272840zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wayne C. Myrvold

Publication date 16 September 2019

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/13157/1/Myrvold%20HarveyFest%20Paper%20Final.pdf

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) Axiomatics, foundations (70A05) Special relativity (83A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

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• Geometric objects and perspectivalism
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• Relativity and the nature of spacetime
• What spacetime does: ideal observers and (Earman's) symmetry principles
• The limitations of inertial frame spacetime functionalism
• The general-relativistic case for super-substantivalism
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