An Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics: Locality, Fields, Energy and Mass

Marc Lange

Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated

2002

344 páginas

11h 28m

ISBN-13: 9780631225003

This book combines physics, philosophy, and history in a radical new approach to introducing the philosophy of physics. It leads the reader through several central problems in the philosophy of physics by tracing their connections to a single issue: whether a cause must be spatiotemporally local to its effect, or whether action at a distance can occur