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Space
and Time in Physics and
Metaphysics
lecture course
Thursday 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.)
First
lecture: February 11
Codes:
BMA-FILD-401
BBN-FIL-401
BMA-LOTD-206
BMI-LOTD-206E
BBV-020
BMVD-020
Contents
- Conventionalism, semantic
convention, operationalism,
constitutive a priori
- Absolute vs. relative
conceptions and objectivity
- Early 20th century definitions
of distance and time - Lorentz
vs. Einstein
- The proper understanding of
the relativity principle - the
lesson from Gallileo
- Reconstruction of the
Lorentzian and the Einsteinan
theories
- Problems with the standard
definitions of distance and time
- logical and operational
circularities
- The precise empirical
definitions of basic
spatio-temporal 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?
Video 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, Relativity:
The Special and General Theory
- 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)
2015-12-17
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The
program
focuses
on logic and
its
applications
in the
philosophy of
science,
particularly
in the
foundations of
mathematics,
physics,
linguistics
and the social
sciences.
Beyond a few
core courses
and a joint
four-semester
seminar series
aimed at
providing a
common
background to
all students,
we offer the
following four
modules:
- Logic
and the
Philosophy of
Mathematics
-
Philosophy of
Physics
- Logic
in Linguistics
- Models
in the Social
Sciences
Students
have to select
one of these
modules based
on their
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