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Philosophy 3330F/G
PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF SPACETIME THEORIES
Philosophical issues raised by the physics of space and time: are space and time objectively real or merely abstractions from spatial and temporal relations? Is motion absolute or relative? Is our knowledge of space and time factual or conventional? Authors include: Newton, Leibniz, Kant, Mach, Einstein. No physics background presumed.