Relationism Rehabilitated? I: Classical Mechanics
Pooley, Oliver and Brown, Harvey R. (2001) Relationism Rehabilitated? I: Classical Mechanics.
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Abstract
The implications for the substantivalist--relationist controversy of Barbour and Bertotti's successful implementation of a Machian approach to dynamics are investigated. It is argued that in the context of Newtonian mechanics the Machian framework provides a genuinely relational interpretation of dynamics and that it is more explanatory than the conventional, substantival interpretation. In a companion paper (Pooley 2001), the implications of the Machian approach for the interpretation of relativistic physics are explored.
| Keywords: | Machianism, relationism, space, spacetime, space-time, substantivalism, absolutism, Barbour, Belot |
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| Subjects: | Specific Sciences: Physics: Classical Physics |
| ID Code: | 220 |
| Deposited By: | Pooley, Oliver |
| Deposited On: | 10 April 2001 |