Invariance and ontology in relativistic physics

Abstract

Some philosophers say that in special relativity, four-dimensional stuff is invariant in some sense that three-dimensional stuff is not. I show that this claim is false.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

Links

PhilArchive

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

  • Only published works are available at libraries.

My notes

Similar books and articles

Some things about stuff.Shieva Kleinschmidt - 2007 - Philosophical Studies 135 (3):407-423.
The Right Stuff.Ned Markosian - 2015 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 93 (4):665-687.
Mereological essentialism, composition, and stuff: a reply to Kristie Miller.David Nicolas - 2009 - Erkenntnis 71 (3):425-429.
Essential stuff.Kristie Miller - 2008 - Ratio 21 (1):55–63.
On the invariance and intrinsicality of four-dimensional shapes in Special Relativity.Yuri Balashov - 2014 - Analysis 74 (4):608-612.
Stuff and coincidence.Thomas J. McKay - 2015 - Philosophical Studies 172 (11):3081-3100.
Some stuffs are not sums of stuff.David Barnett - 2004 - Philosophical Review 113 (1):89-100.
Choosing Rationally and Choosing Correctly.Ralph Wedgwood - 2003 - In Sarah Stroud & Christine Tappolet (eds.), Weakness of will and practical irrationality. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 201--229.
Off-shell fields and pauli-villars regularization.J. Frastai & L. P. Horwitz - 1995 - Foundations of Physics 25 (10):1495-1510.
Stuff.Kristie Miller - 2009 - American Philosophical Quarterly 46 (1):1 - 18.
Existence and Strong Uncountability.Jonah P. B. Goldwater - 2017 - Acta Analytica 32 (3):321-331.
Is there an alternative to the Block universe view?Vesselin Petkov - unknown
Summation relations and portions of stuff.Maureen Donnelly & Thomas Bittner - 2009 - Philosophical Studies 143 (2):167 - 185.
Involutory Hopf algebras and 3-manifold invariants.Kuperberg Greg - unknown
Four-Dimensional Geometric Quantities versus the Usual Three-Dimensional Quantities: The Resolution of Jackson’s Paradox. [REVIEW]Tomislav Ivezić - 2006 - Foundations of Physics 36 (10):1511-1534.

Analytics

Added to PP
2019-05-30

Downloads
862 (#17,413)

6 months
242 (#10,174)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Hans Halvorson
Princeton University

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Relativistic objects.Yuri Balashov - 1999 - Noûs 33 (4):644-662.
The Relativistic Invariance of 4D Shapes.Claudio Calosi - 2015 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 50:1-4.

View all 7 references / Add more references