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Notable Philosophical Discussions of the Absolute-Relative Debates
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- Earman, J., 1970, “Who’s Afraid of Absolute
Space?,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 48:
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- –––, 1986, “Why Space is Not a Substance
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- Hoefer, C., 2000, “Kant’s Hands and Earman’s
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- Huggett, N., 2000, “Reflections on Parity Nonconservation,” Philosophy of Science, 67: 219–241. (Scholar)
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- Maudlin, T., 1990, “Substances and Space-Time: What Aristotle would have Said to Einstein,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 21(4): 531–561. (Scholar)
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- Pooley, O., 2013, “Substantivalist and Relationalist Approaches to Spacetime”, in Robert Batterman (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Physics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Stein, H., 1967, “Newtonian Space-Time,” Texas Quarterly, 10: 174–200. (Scholar)
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