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General Relativity, MOND, and the problem of unconceived alternatives
Observational discrepancies in galactic rotation curves and cluster dispersion data have been interpreted to imply the existence of dark matter....
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General Relativity
We need here a rather extended geometrical introduction, in order to develop a language that will be the formal setting for general relativity.
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Recklessness, Agent-Relative Prerogatives, and Latent Obligations: Does Belief-Relativity Trump Fact-Relativity with Respect to Our Rights?
Are our rights—to our bodily integrity, to our possessions, to the goods and services promised us, and so on—matters of fact, or are our rights...
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The Relativity of Distance
This chapter examines Williams’s principle of the relativity of distance in depth, investigating its grounding in broader elements of his moral...
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On Two Slights to Noether’s First Theorem: Mental Causation and General Relativity
It is widely held among philosophers that the conservation of energy is true and important, and widely held among philosophers of science that...
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On Why Quine’s Ontological Relativity Requires Reconsideration
We aim to show from a new perspective that Quine’s ontological relativity, based largely on his so-called “proxy-function argument”, falls short of...
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Does general relativity highlight necessary connections in nature?
The dynamics of general relativity is encoded in a set of ten differential equations, the so-called Einstein field equations . It is usually believed...
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Moral Relativity and the Sovereign
Ancient Pyrrhonism had an enormous impact on intellectuals in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The Pyrrhonists opposed all other...
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Natorp, Cassirer and the Influence of Relativity Theory on Neo-Kantian Philosophy
In this paper, I will survey the “received view” of the interpretation of relativity theory in Natorp and Cassirer. Neo-Kantian and non-neo-Kantian...
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Philipp Frank on Special Relativity: 1908–1912
Between 1908 and 1912, while working in Vienna, Philipp Frank wrote a dozen articles on relativity: the principle, as Einstein originally denominated...
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Maximal motion and minimal matter: Aristotelian physics and special relativity
This paper shows how key aspects of Aristotle’s core concepts of matter and motion, some of which have recently been shown to help make sense of...
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General Relativity as a Collection of Collections of Models
One usually identifies a particular collection of geometric objects with the models of general relativity. But within this standard collection lurk...
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The End of Matter? On the Early Reception of Relativity in neo-Kantian Philosophy
In his article La fin de la matière (1906) Henri Poincaré reported that according to many physicists “matter does not exist”, but he immediately...
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Agents, Acts and the Relativity of Blame
This chapter explores the bearing of ideology and the potential of false belief and ignorance to excuse the doing of deeds which are antithetical to...
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Remark About the Relationship Between Relativity Theory and Idealistic Philosophy
One of the most interesting aspects of relativity theory for the philosophically minded consists in the fact that it gave new and surprising insights...
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Structural Relativity and Informal Rigour
Informal rigour is the process by which we come to understand particular mathematical structures and then manifest this rigour through...
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Special Relativity in Superposition
By deriving the Lorentz transformation from the absolute speed of light, Einstein demonstrated the relativistic variability of space and time,...
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Special theory of relativity in chemistry
Application of Einstein special theory of relativity in chemistry seems to be superfluous; energies are too low. The average velocity of electron in...
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General Relativity, Mental Causation, and Energy Conservation
The conservation of energy and momentum have been viewed as undermining Cartesian mental causation since the 1690s. Modern discussions of the topic...
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Neo-Lorentzian relativity and the beginning of the universe
Many physicists have thought that absolute time became otiose with the introduction of Special Relativity. William Lane Craig disagrees. Craig argues...