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.
 - 
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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