Maxwell Gravitation
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Peer-reviewed
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Repository DOI
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Authors
Dewar, Neil https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6623-4529
Abstract
jats:pThis 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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Keywords
5003 Philosophy, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies, 5002 History and Philosophy Of Specific Fields
Journal Title
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Conference Name
Journal ISSN
0031-8248
1539-767X
1539-767X
Volume Title
85
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)