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Cohen on Einstein's Simultaneity Gedankenexperiment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

V. Alan White
V. Alan White
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University of Wisconsin Center—Manitowoc County
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Philosophy , Volume 66 , Issue 256 , April 1991 , pp. 244 - 245
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1991

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References

1 Cohen, Michael, ‘Simultaneity and Einstein's Gedankenexperiment’, Philosophy 64, No. 249 (07 1989), 391–396.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Einstein, Albert, Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (London: Methuen (University Paperback), 15th edition, 1960), 25–26.Google Scholar

3 Op. cit. note 1, 396.

4 Op. cit. note 2, 26. Note that in the second sentence here Einstein employs ‘lightning flash’ to refer to the bolts as they occur at A and B. That this is indeed his meaning is made clear by Einstein in the sentences immediately preceding these two.

5 I am indebted to Roger Rigterink for conversation which directly led to my seeing the necessity of making Einstein's assumption about M and M′ explicit. Afterwards I stumbled upon this same point in Marder, L., Time and the Space-Traveller (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971), 46.Google Scholar