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This is a revised and updated edition of Graham Nerlich's classic book (1976). It develops a metaphysical account of space that treats it as a real and concrete entity, showing that shape plays a key explanatory role in space and spacetime theories. Arguing that geometrical explanation is very like causal explanation, Professor Nerlich prepares the ground for philosophical argument and investigates how different spaces would affect perception differently. Along the way Professor Nerlich criticizes and rejects conventionalism as a non-realist metaphysics of space, concluding that there is, in fact, no problem of underdetermination for this aspect of spacetime theories, while offering an extensive discussion of the relativity of motion.
Llegir més - Autor/a Graham Nerlich
- ISBN13 9780521450140
- ISBN10 0521450144
- Pàgines 308
- Any Edició 1994
- Fecha de publicación 04/08/1994
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
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Shape of Space (Alemany, Francès)
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- Graham Nerlich
- 9780521450140



