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Works cited in text
- Aristotle, 1984, The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised
Oxford Translation, J. Barnes (ed.), Princeton: Princeton
University Press. (Scholar)
- Arthur, R.T., 2013, “Leibniz’s theory of space,” Foundations of Science, 18(3), pp.499–528. (Scholar)
- Biener, Z., 2017, “De Gravitatione Reconsidered: The
Changing Significance of Experimental Evidence for Newton’s
Metaphysics of Space,” Journal of the History of
Philosophy, 55(4), pp.583–608. (Scholar)
- Brill, D. R. and Cohen, J., 1966, “Rotating Masses and their
effects on inertial frames,” Physical Review 143:
1011–1015. (Scholar)
- Dasgupta, S., 2015, “Substantivalism vs relationalism about space in classical physics,” Philosophy Compass, 10(9), pp.601–624. (Scholar)
- Descartes, R., 1983, Principles of Philosophy, R. P. Miller and V. R. Miller (trans.), Dordrecht: D. Reidel. (Scholar)
- Earman, J., 1970, “Who’s Afraid of Absolute
Space?,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 48:
287–319. (Scholar)
- Friedman, M., 2013, Space in Kantian idealism. Space: A History (Oxford Philosophical Concepts), A. Janiak (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1983, Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Relativistic Physics and Philosophy of Science, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
- Garber, D., 1992, Descartes’ Metaphysical Physics,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
- Garber, D. and J. B. Rauzy, 2004, “Leibniz on Body, Matter and Extension,” The Aristotelian Society (Supplementary Volume), 78: 23–40. (Scholar)
- Hartz, G. A. and J. A. Cover, 1988, “Space and Time in the Leibnizian Metaphysic,” Noûs, 22: 493–519. (Scholar)
- Huggett, N., 2012, “What Did Newton Mean by ‘Absolute
Motion’,” in Interpreting Newton: Critical
Essays, A. Janiak and E. Schliesser (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge
Univ Press, 196–218. (Scholar)
- –––, 2006, “The Regularity Account of Relational Spacetime,” Mind, 115: 41–74. (Scholar)
- –––, 2000, “Space from Zeno to Einstein: Classic Readings with a Contemporary Commentary,” International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 14: 327–329. (Scholar)
- Janiak, A., 2015, Space and motion in nature and Scripture:
Galileo, Descartes, Newton. Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science Part A, 51, pp.89–99. (Scholar)
- Jauernig, A., 2008, “Leibniz on Motion and the Equivalence of Hypotheses,” The Leibniz Review, 18: 1–40. (Scholar)
- –––, 2004, Leibniz Freed of Every Flaw: A Kantian Reads Leibnizian Metaphysics, Ph.D. Dissertation, Princeton University. (Scholar)
- Leibniz, G. W., 1989, Philosophical Essays, R. Ariew and
D. Garber (trans.), Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co. (Scholar)
- Leibniz, G. W., and Samuel Clarke, 1715–1716,
“Correspondence”, in The Leibniz-Clarke
Correspondence, Together with Extracts from Newton’s
“Principia” and “Opticks”, H. G.
Alexander (ed.), Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1956. (Scholar)
- Maudlin, T., 1993, “Buckets of Water and Waves of Space: Why Space-Time is Probably a Substance,” Philosophy of Science, 60: 183–203. (Scholar) (Scholar)
- Newton, I. and I. B. Cohen, 1999, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, I. B. Cohen and A. M. Whitman (trans.), Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
- Pooley, O., 2002, The Reality of Spacetime, D. Phil.
thesis, Oxford: Oxford University. (Scholar)
- Ray, C., 1991, Time, Space and Philosophy, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
- Roberts, J. T., 2003, “Leibniz on Force and Absolute Motion,” Philosophy of Science, 70: 553–573. (Scholar)
- Rynasiewicz, R., 2019, “Newton’s Scholium on Time,
Space, Place and Motion,” in The Oxford Handbook of
Newton, E. Schliesser and C. Smeenk (eds.), published online 8
January 2019. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199930418.013.28
[Preprint available online] (Scholar)
- –––, 1995, “By their Properties, Causes,
and Effects: Newton’s Scholium on Time, Space, Place, and Motion
– I. The Text,” Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science, 26: 133–153. (Scholar)
- Sklar, L., 1974, Space, Time and Spacetime, Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
- Slowik, E., 2016, Deep Metaphysics of Space, Cham,
Switzerland: Springer. (Scholar)
- Stan, M., 2015, “Absolute Space and the Riddle of Rotation:
Kant’s Response to Newton”. Oxford Studies in Early
Modern Philosophy, vol. 7, Daniel Garber and Donald Rutherford
(eds.), pp. 257–308. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Stan, M., 2016, “Huygens on Inertial Structure and Relativity,” Philosophy of Science, 83(2), pp.277-298. (Scholar)
- Stein, H., 1977, “Some Philosophical Prehistory of General Relativity,” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science 8: Foundations of Space-Time Theories, J. Earman, C. Glymour and J. Stachel (eds.), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1967, “Newtonian Space-Time,” Texas Quarterly, 10: 174–200. (Scholar)
- Van Fraassen, B. C., 1970, An introduction to the philosophy of time and space, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
- Vassallo, A. and M. Esfeld, 2016, “Leibnizian relationalism for general relativistic physics,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 55. pp. 101–107. (Scholar)
Notable Philosophical Discussions of the Absolute-Relative Debates
- Barbour, J. B., 1982, “Relational Concepts of Space and Time,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 33: 251–274. (Scholar)
- Belot, G., 2000, “Geometry and Motion,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 51: 561–595. (Scholar)
- Butterfield, J., 1984, “Relationism and Possible Worlds,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 35: 101–112. (Scholar)
- Callender, C., 2002, “Philosophy of Space-Time Physics,” in The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science, P. Machamer (ed.), Cambridge: Blackwell, pp. 173–198. (Scholar)
- Carrier, M., 1992, “Kant’s Relational Theory of
Absolute Space,” Kant Studien, 83: 399–416. (Scholar)
- Dasgupta, S., 2015, “Substantivalism vs Relationalism About Space in Classical Physics”, Philosophy Compass 10, pp. 601–624. (Scholar)
- Dieks, D., 2001, “Space-Time Relationism in Newtonian and Relativistic Physics,” International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 15: 5–17. (Scholar)
- DiSalle, R., 2006, Understanding Space-Time, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Disalle, R., 1995, “Spacetime Theory as Physical Geometry,” Erkenntnis, 42: 317–337. (Scholar)
- Earman, J., 1986, “Why Space is Not a Substance (at Least Not to First Degree),” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 67: 225–244. (Scholar)
- –––, 1970, “Who’s Afraid of Absolute
Space?,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 48:
287–319. (Scholar)
- Earman, J. and J. Norton, 1987, “What Price Spacetime Substantivalism: The Hole Story,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 38: 515–525. (Scholar)
- Hoefer, C., 2000, “Kant’s Hands and Earman’s
Pions: Chirality Arguments for Substantival Space,”
International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 14:
237–256. (Scholar)
- –––, 1998, “Absolute Versus Relational Spacetime: For Better Or Worse, the Debate Goes on,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 49: 451–467. (Scholar)
- –––, 1996, “The Metaphysics of Space-Time Substantialism,” Journal of Philosophy, 93: 5–27. (Scholar)
- Huggett, N., 2000, “Reflections on Parity Nonconservation,” Philosophy of Science, 67: 219–241. (Scholar)
- Le Poidevin, R., 2004, “Space, Supervenience and Substantivalism,” Analysis, 64: 191–198. (Scholar)
- Malament, D., 1985, “Discussion: A Modest Remark about Reichenbach, Rotation, and General Relativity,” Philosophy of Science, 52: 615–620. (Scholar)
- Maudlin, T., 1993, “Buckets of Water and Waves of Space: Why Space-Time is Probably a Substance,” Philosophy of Science, 60: 183–203. (Scholar)
- –––, 1990, “Substances and Space-Time: What Aristotle would have Said to Einstein,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 21(4): 531–561. (Scholar)
- Maudlin, T., 2012, Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
- Mundy, B., 1992, “Space-Time and Isomorphism,” Proceedings of the Biennial Meetings of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1: 515–527. (Scholar)
- –––, 1983, “Relational Theories of Euclidean Space and Minkowski Space-Time,” Philosophy of Science, 50: 205–226. (Scholar)
- Nerlich, G., 2003, “Space-Time Substantivalism,” in The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics, M. J. Loux (ed.), Oxford: Oxford Univ Press, 281–314. (Scholar)
- –––, 1996, “What Spacetime Explains,” Philosophical Quarterly, 46: 127–131. (Scholar)
- –––, 1994, What Spacetime Explains: Metaphysical Essays on Space and Time, New York: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1973, “Hands, Knees, and Absolute Space,” Journal of Philosophy, 70: 337–351. (Scholar)
- Pooley, O., 2013 “Substantivalism and Relationalism About
Space and Time”, in R. Batterman (ed.), The Oxford Handbook
of Philosophy of Physics, OUP. (Scholar)
- Rynasiewicz, R., 2000, “On the Distinction between Absolute and Relative Motion,” Philosophy of Science, 67: 70–93. (Scholar)
- –––, 1996, “Absolute Versus Relational Space-Time: An Outmoded Debate?,” Journal of Philosophy, 93: 279–306. (Scholar)
- Teller, P., 1991, “Substance, Relations, and Arguments about the Nature of Space-Time,” Philosophical Review, 363–397. (Scholar)
- Torretti, R., 2000, “Spacetime Models for the World,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Part B), 31(2): 171–186. (Scholar)