Analisi critica dei sistemi assiomatici per lo spazio-tempo. Sviluppo di un sistema assiomatico
basato su primitivi non causali.
Sistemi assiomatici basati su una singola relazione indefinita di ordine temporale:
- Robb, A.A.(1914), A Theory of Time and Space (Cambridge: CUP).
- Robb, A.A.(1921), The Absolute Relations of Time and Space (Cambridge: CUP).
- Robb, A.A.(1936), Geometry of Time and Space (Cambridge: CUP)
(scaricabili dall'archivio
http://www.archive.org/index.php )
- Mundy, B. (1986), The Physical
Content of Minkowski Geometry,
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 37, 25-54.
- Mundy, B. (1986), Optical
Axiomatization
of Minkowski Space-Time Geometry,
Philosophy of Science 53, 1-30.
Una rassegna di J. Schutz: Axiomatic
systems for Minkowski space-time .
Altri articoli:
- Stein, H. (1968)
On Einstein-Minkowski space-time, Journal of Philosophy, 65, 5-23.
- Stein, H. (1970) A note on time and Relativity Theory, Journal of Philosophy, 67, 289- 294.
- Stein, H. (1991)
On relativity theory and openess of the future, Philosophy of Science, 58, 147-167.
- Latzer, R. W. (1972), Nondirected
Light Signals and the Structure of Time,
Synthese, 24 236.
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David Malament, Causal
Theories of Time and the Conventionality of Simultaneity,
Nous, Vol. 11, No. 3, Symposium on Space and Time (Sep., 1977), pp. 293-300.
Monografie
- Goldblatt, R (1987), Orthogonality and Spacetime Geometry,, New York, Springer-Verlag.
- Schutz J. (1997), Independent Axioms for Minkowski Space-Time,
Pitman Research Notes in Mathematics Series Volume 373, Addison-Wesley-Longman, Harlow.
Interpretazioni causali:
- H. Reichenbach, Filosofia dello spazio e del tempo, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1977
- Gruenbaum, A., Philosophical Problems of Space and Time (Reidel, 1973)
- Van Frassen, Bas C., An Introduction to the Philosophy of Time and Space
(New York: Random House, 1970)
- Salmon, W. C. (1980): Space, Time, and Motion: A Philosophical Introduction, 2nd edition, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
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