On various senses of “conventional” and their interrelation in the philosophy of physics: simultaneity as a case study
Dorato, Mauro (2009) On various senses of “conventional” and their interrelation in the philosophy of physics: simultaneity as a case study.
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Abstract
My aim in this note is to disambiguate various senses of ‘conventional’ that in the philosophy of physics have been frequently conflated. As a case study, I will refer to the well-known issue of the conventionality of simultaneity in the special theory of relativity, since it is particularly in this context that the above mentioned confusion is present.
| Keywords: | conventionality, simultaneity, relativity theory |
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| Subjects: | Specific Sciences: Physics: Relativity Theory |
| ID Code: | 4854 |
| Deposited By: | Dorato, Mauro |
| Deposited On: | 30 August 2009 |