We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
These eleven essays were published between 1979 and 1991 in the following order:
‘What can geometry explain?’ (1979) British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 30: 69–83.
‘Is curvature intrinsic to physical space?’ (1979) Philosophy of Science 46: 439–58.
‘How to make things have happened’ (1979) Canadian Journal of Philosophy 9: 1–22.
‘Can time be finite?’ (1981) Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 62: 227–39.
‘Simultaneity and convention in special relativity’ (1982) in Robert McLaughlin (ed.), What? Where? When? Why? Dordrecht, Reidel: 129–53.
‘Special relativity is not based on causality’ (1982) British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 33: 361–82.
‘What ontology can be about: the spacetime example’ (1985) Australasian Journal of Philosophy 63: 127–42.
‘On learning from the mistakes of positivists’ (1989) in J. E. Fensted, I. T. Frolov and R. Hipinen (eds.), Logic Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Amsterdam, Elsevier: vol. VIII, pp. 459–77.
‘Motion and change of distance’ (1989) in J. Heil (ed.), Cause, Mind and Reality. Dordrecht, Kluwer: 221–34.
‘How Euclidean geometry has misled metaphysics’ (1991) Journal of Philosophy 88: 169–89.
‘Holes in the Hole Argument’ (1993) in D. Prawitz and D. Westersthål (eds.), Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht, Kluwer: vol. IX.
I acknowledge the help of the original publishers of these papers whose permission to reprint them here made this volume possible. I acknowledge also the help and stimulus of Andrew Westwell-Roper and his permission to reprint §2, ‘What ontology can be about’, which we wrote jointly.
I have changed several of the essays in minor ways to update them in some respects.
Birgit Tauss, Karel Curran and Margaret Rawlinson have helped in various ways in preparing the papers for republication.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
