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" Space, Time and Geometry "
edited by Patrick Suppes.
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BL
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734145
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b553971
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edited by Patrick Suppes.
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Space, Time and Geometry\ edited by Patrick Suppes.
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Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1973
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Synthese Library, Monographs of Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science and of Knowledge, and on the Mathematical Methods of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 56.
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(444 pages)
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9401026505
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: 9789401026505
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I / Causality and Time --;Causal Models and Space-Time Geometries --;Temporally Symmetric Causal Relations in Minkowski Space-Time --;Notes on the Causal Theory of Time --;Earman on the Causal Theory of Time --;Kant's Formulation of the Laws of Motion --;On Travelling Backward in Time --;The Flow of Time --;II / Geometry of Space and Time --;Poincaré's Philosophy of Space --;On the Structure of Space-Time --;Topology, Cosmology and Convention --;Grünbaum on the Conventionality of Geometry --;Reflections on a Relational Theory of Space --;The Ontology of the Curvature of Empty Space in the Geometrodynamics of Clifford and Wheeler --;Relativity Principles, Absolute Objects and Symmetry Groups --;Nondirected Light Signals and the Structure of Time --;Coordinate-Free Relativity --;Some Open Problems in the Philosophy of Space and Time --;The Naive Conception of the Topology of the Surface of a Body.
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All of the papers except those of Griinbaum, Fine, the second paper of Friedman, and the paper of Adams appeared in a special double issue of Synthese (24 (1972), Nos. I am pleased to have been able to add the four additional papers mentioned in making the special issue a volume in the Synthese Library.
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Philosophy (General)
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Patrick Suppes
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