Space and Time in Physics and Metaphysics
lecture course Monday 18:00 -
19:30 Room 221 (Múzeum krt. 4./i)
(The lectures will be
given in English. The exam can
be taken in English or Hungarian.)
Codes:
BMA-FILD-401.26
BBN-FIL-401.19
BMA-LOTD-206.05
BMI-LOTD-206E.05
BMVD-020.16
BBV-020.16
xxxn9523
Contents
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Conventionalsim, semantic convention, operationalism, constitutive a priori
- Absolute vs. relative conceptions and objectivity
- Problems with the standard textbook definitions of distance and time: logical and operational circularities
- The precise empirical definitions of basic spatiotemporal conceptions
- Relativity to what?
- Spacetime, determinism, objective becoming
- Spacetime and existence: presentism vs. eternalism, endurance vs. perdurance
- Spacetime and causality
- Spacetime and irreversibility
- Why just time?
Voice records and the slides of the lectures will be available.
Preliminary list of suggested readings (the final list will be announced soon):
- L. E. Szabó: Empirical
Foundation of Space and Time, in M. Suárez, M.
Dorato and M. Rédei
(eds.), EPSA07:
Launch of the
European Philosophy of Science Association,
Springer 2009. [PDF]
- J. M. E. McTaggart: The
Unreality
of Time, in: The Philosophy of Time (Oxford
Readings in Philosophy), R. Le Poidevin, M.
MacBeath (eds.), Oxford University Press, 1993.
(Eredeti mű: The Nature of Existence, 33.
fejezet, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
1927.)
- H. Reichenbach: The Theory of Relativity and A Priori Knowledge, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1965.
- L. E. Szabó: On the meaning of Lorentz
covariance, Foundations
of
Physics Letters 17 (2004)
pp. 479 - 496 [preprint: PDF]
- E. Szabó
László: A nyitott jövő problémája -
véletlen, kauzalitás és determinizmus a
fizikában, Typotex Könyvkiadó, Budapest,
2002. (A
könyv javított digitális kiadása PDF formában
letölthető innen.)
- Balázs
László Kristóf és E. Szabó László:
"Semmiben nem nyújt új vagy más leírást a térről
és az időről" -- beszélgetés a
relativitáselméletről,
Beszélő,
2004. január, 75.-88. old.
- H.
Reichenbach: The
philosophy
of space and time, Dover Publications,
New York, 1958.
- M. Friedman: Foundations of Space-Time Theories --
Relativistic Physics and Philosophy of Science,
Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1983.
- J. S. Bell: How to teach special relativity,
in Speakable
and unspeakable in quantum mechanics,
Cambridge University Press, 1987.
- A. Einstein: A speciális és általános relativitás
elmélete, Kossuth, 1993.
- L. E. Szabó: Lorentzian
theories vs. Einsteinian special relativity -- a
logico-empiricist
reconstruction, in A. Maté,
M. Rédei and F. Stadler (eds.), Vienna
Circle
and
Hungary
--
Veröffentlichungen
des
Instituts
Wiener
Kreis,
Springer 2011. [PDF]
- L. E. Szabó: Does
special relativity theory tell us anything new
about space and time? [PDF]
(Prolog)
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