Sauer, Tilman (2014) Piaget, Einstein, and the Concept of Time. [Preprint]
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Inspired by a question that Einstein had asked him, Piaget analyzed the child's conception of time with a series of experiments that were published in book form in 1946. I briefly recapitulate Piaget's analysis as an interpretation of the conception of absolute time in classical physics. Piaget's suggestions as to how the analysis would carry over to a genetic understanding of time in the special theory of relativity are reviewed. In light of Piaget's work, some observations are made about Einstein's 1905 paper on the `Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies.' The specific transformational operations that mediate between the viewpoints of different inertial observers are characterized as a basis for the cognitive restructuring of spatio-temporal concepts in the relativistic context.
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| Additional Information: | To appear in: Culture and Cognition. Essays in honor of Peter Damerow. Jürgen Renn and Matthias Schemmel (eds.), Edition Open Access, Berlin. | ||||||
| Keywords: | Time; Special Relativity; Developmental Psychology; History of Physics | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory |
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| Depositing User: | Tilman Sauer | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 30 Apr 2014 06:50 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 30 Apr 2014 06:50 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 10637 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory |
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| Date: | 29 April 2014 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10637 |
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