Maxwell Gravitation
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Publication Date
2018-04Journal Title
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
ISSN
0031-8248
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Volume
85
Issue
2
Pages
249-270
Type
Article
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AM
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Dewar, N. (2018). Maxwell Gravitation. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, 85 (2), 249-270. https://doi.org/10.1086/696387
Abstract
<jats:p>This article gives an explicit presentation of Newtonian gravitation on the backdrop of Maxwell space-time, giving a sense in which acceleration is relative in gravitational theory. However, caution is needed: assessing whether this is a robust or interesting sense of the relativity of acceleration depends on some subtle technical issues and on substantive philosophical questions over how to identify the space-time structure of a theory.</jats:p>
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2022-07-01
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/696387
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/335303
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