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- The a-theory and specialrelativity.SpecialRelativity -2008 - In L. Nathan Oaklander,The philosophy of time. New York: Routledge. pp. 4--7.Export citation
Bookmark - 3. the monotone series and multiplier and divisor relative numbers.Divisor Relative Numbers -1987 -International Logic Review: Rassegna Internazionale di Logica 15 (1):26.Export citation Bookmark
- Robert Hermann.Bohr-Sommerfeld Quantization in GeneralRelativity -1980 - In A. R. Marlow,Quantum theory and gravitation. New York: Academic Press.Export citation Bookmark
- An Analysis Of The Isopsephic Poems In Antepli Ayni’s Divan.Şener Demi̇rel -2008 -Journal of Turkish Studies 3:372-398.No categories
- Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar'dan İnce Bir Batılılaşma Eleştirisi: Ali Nizamî Beyin Alafrangalığı ve Şeyhliğ.Serhat Demi̇rel -2014 -Journal of Turkish Studies 9 (Volume 9 Issue 6):291-291.No categories
- Symbol, Symbolical Language and in This Sense Symbolical Elements in the First 18 Couplet of Mesnevî.Şener Demi̇rel -2012 -Journal of Turkish Studies 7:915-947.No categories
- Mîz'n-n'me-i Şu’ar': The Work of Es-Seyyid Hüseyin Hüsnî Burdurî on Arud.Şener Demi̇rel -2011 -Journal of Turkish Studies 6:367-402.No categories
- Style Activities Seen In The Meaning Domain Of XVII. Century Classic Turkish Poetry: Classical Style-Sebk-i Hindî-Hikemî Tarz- Localization.Şener Demi̇rel -2009 -Journal of Turkish Studies 4:246-273.No categories
- Senaryo Tabanlı Öğrenme Tekniğinin Dil Bilgisi Konularının Öğre.Şener Demi̇rel -2016 -Journal of Turkish Studies 11 (Volume 11 Issue 19):267-267.No categories
- An İnvestigation On The Phonetic Features Of A Missing Elif And Mahmud Story.Özlem Demi̇rel Dönmez -2012 -Journal of Turkish Studies 7:969-994.No categories
- Gramerleşme Süreçleri Bakımından Nevadirü'ş-Şebab'da Tasvirî Fiiller.Ezgi Demi̇rel -2015 -Journal of Turkish Studies 10 (Volume 10 Issue 8):819-819.No categories
- Relativism, and Social Theory.".OnRelativity -1986 - In Joseph Margolis, Michael Krausz & Richard M. Burian,Rationality, relativism, and the human sciences. Boston: M. Nijhoff. pp. 209--22.Export citation Bookmark
- Max Weber'in Sosyoloji Kuramı.Demokan Demi̇rel -2013 -Journal of Turkish Studies 8 (Volume 8 Issue 12):361-361.No categories
- Anadolu Ağızlarında Görülen Dil Uyumsuzluğu Üzerine Ek Düzeyinde Bir İnceleme.Özlem Demi̇rel Dönmez -2014 -Journal of Turkish Studies 9 (Volume 9 Issue 12):143-143.No categories
- Klasik Türk Şiirinde "Merkez Sembolü" Olarak "Sevgili".Gamze Demi̇rel -2014 -Journal of Turkish Studies 9 (Volume 9 Issue 9):455-455.No categories
- Çocuklar İçin Sokakların Güvenlik Koşullarının İrdelenmesi: Eskişehir Odunpazarı Örneği.Pınar Demi̇rel Etli̇ -2015 -Journal of Turkish Studies 10 (Volume 10 Issue 14):225-225.No categories
- Söz Dizimi Anlam İlişkisi Üzerine Yeni Bir Metot Denemesi.Özlem Demi̇rel Dönmez -2014 -Journal of Turkish Studies 9 (Volume 9 Issue 9):449-449.No categories
- The Analysis of Let'if-n'me in Terms of the Novel Technique.Şener Demi̇rel -2011 -Journal of Turkish Studies 6:101-117.No categories
- Kendall L. Walton.LinguisticRelativity -1973 - In Glenn Pearce & Patrick Maynard,Conceptual change. Boston,: D. Reidel. pp. 52--1.Export citation Bookmark
- Phillip E. Parker Department of Mathematics Syracuse University Syracuse, New York.New Directions InRelativity -1980 - In A. R. Marlow,Quantum theory and gravitation. New York: Academic Press.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- physical realism, but in fact comports well with it. Our paper has two main parts. In part I we dwell on the phenomenon itself. We explain why conceptualrelativity is so puzzling—indeed, why it initially appears impossible. We iden-tify three interrelated assumptions lying behind this apparent impossibility—. [REVIEW]Why ConceptualRelativity Seems Impossible -2002 - In Ernest Sosa & Enrique Villanueva,Realism and Relativism. Blackwell.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Judas Tree In Diwan Poetry.Şener Demi̇rel -2009 -Journal of Turkish Studies 4:995-1014.No categories
- Yoshiko Matsumoto.Japanese Relative Clauses -1996 - In Masayoshi Shibatani & Sandra A. Thompson,Grammatical Constructions: Their Form and Meaning. Clarendon Press.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Significance and interpretation within the knowledge based society.Cornelia Gășpărel &Daniela Dunca (eds.) -2013 - Iași: Institutul European,.
- Kültürlerarası Liderlik.Gökçe Demi̇rel Hatice -2014 -Journal of Turkish Studies 9 (Volume 9 Issue 5):689-689.No categories
- Philosophical Issues, 12, Realism and Relativism, 2002.on LogicalRelativity -2002 - In Ernest Sosa & Enrique Villanueva,Realism and Relativism. Blackwell.Export citation Bookmark
- 9. Identity-like Relations in Attribute Systems.Ob Ob &Rel Val aa At -2006 - In Paolo Valore,Topics on General and Formal Ontology. Polimetrica International Scientific Publisher.Export citation Bookmark
- Physicalrelativity: Space–time structure from a dynamical perspective.Harvey Brown -2005 -Philosophy 82 (321):498-503.No categories
- Enduring SpecialRelativity.Kristie Miller -2004 -Southern Journal of Philosophy 42 (3):349-370.Endurantism is not inconsistent with the theory of specialrelativity, or so I shall argue. Endurantism is not committed to presentism, and thus not committed to a metaphysics that is at least prima facie inconsistent with specialrelativity. Nor is specialrelativity inconsistent with the idea that objects are wholly present at a time just if all of their parts co-exist at that time. For the endurantist notion of co-existence in terms of which “wholly present” is defined, (...) is not, I will argue, a notion according to which co-existence is transitive. Although an absence of absolute simultaneity presents some problems for the endurantist claim that objects are wholly present whenever they exist, there are a number of ways that the endurantist can respond to this difficulty. Thus, I conclude, considerations pertaining to the theory of specialrelativity certainly do not rule out endurantism as a metaphysics of persistence. (shrink)
- (4 other versions)The Meaning ofRelativity.Albert Einstein -1922 - London,: Routledge. Edited by Edwin P. Adams.
- The Reception ofRelativity in American Philosophy.Sander Verhaegh -2024 -Philosophy of Science 91 (2):468-87.Historians have shown that philosophical discussions about the implications ofrelativity significantly shaped the development of European philosophy of science in the 1920s. Yet little is known about American debates from this period. This paper maps the first responses to Einstein’s theory in three U.S. philosophy journals and situates these papers within the local intellectual climate. We argue that these discussions (1) stimulated the development of a distinctly American branch of philosophy of science and (2) paved the way for (...) the logical empiricists, who emigrated to the United States in the years before World War II. (shrink)
- Relativity and the Moving Spotlight.Bradford Skow -2009 -Journal of Philosophy 106 (12):666-678.
- Ontologicalrelativity and relative identity.Peter Thomas Geach -1973 - In Milton Karl Munitz,Logic and ontology. New York,: New York University Press.
- Agent-Relativity and the Doing- Happening Distinction‹.David McNaughton &Piers Rawling -1991 -Philosophical Studies 63 (2):167 - 185.
- Relativity of Value and the Consequentialist Umbrella.Jennie Lousie -2004 -Philosophical Quarterly 54 (217):518-536.No categories
- Dependence relations in generalrelativity.Antonio Vassallo -2019 -European Journal for Philosophy of Science 10 (1):1-28.The paper discusses from a metaphysical standpoint the nature of the dependence relation underpinning the talk of mutual action between material and spatiotemporal structures in generalrelativity. It is shown that the standard analyses of dependence in terms of causation or grounding are ill-suited for the general relativistic context. Instead, a non-standard analytical framework in terms of structural equation modeling is exploited, which leads to the conclusion that the kind of dependence encoded in the Einstein field equations is a (...) novel one. (shrink)
- PhilosophicalRelativity.John Koethe -1986 -Philosophical Review 95 (1):141.
- Relativity in spatial conception and description.Stephen C. Levinson -1996 - In John J. Gumperz & Stephen C. Levinson,Rethinking Linguistic Relativity. Cambridge University Press. pp. 177--202.
- Evaluatorrelativity and consequential evaluation.Amartya Sen -1983 -Philosophy and Public Affairs 12 (2):113-132.
- Relativity and Geometry.R. Torretti -1985 -British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 36 (1):100-104.
- Therelativity of ‘placebos’: defending a modified version of Grünbaum’s definition.Jeremy Howick -2017 -Synthese 194 (4):1363-1396.Debates about the ethics and effects of placebos and whether ‘placebos’ in clinical trials of complex treatments such as acupuncture are adequate rage. Yet there is currently no widely accepted definition of the ‘placebo’. A definition of the placebo is likely to inform these controversies. Grünbaum’s characterization of placebos and placebo effects has been touted by some authors as the best attempt thus far, but has not won widespread acceptance largely because Grünbaum failed to specify what he means by a (...) therapeutic theory and because he does not stipulate a special role for expectation effects. Grünbaum claims that placebos are treatments whose ‘characteristic features’ do not have therapeutic effects on the target disorder. I show that with four modifications, Grünbaum’s definition provides a defensible account of placebos for the purpose of constructing placebo controls within clinical trials. The modifications I introduce are: adding a special role for expectations, insisting that placebo controls control for all and only the effects of the incidental treatment features, relativizing the definition of placebos to patients, and introducing harmful interventions and nocebos to the definitional scheme. I also provide guidance for classifying treatment features as characteristic or incidental. (shrink)
- Culturalrelativity, ethical relativism and the immutability of the human nature: Some considerations on philosophical anthropology.Karl Acham -2023 -Aoristo - International Journal of Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Metaphysics 3 (1):43-66.Alfred Stein, em memória de quem esse artigo é dedicado, mantinha, enquanto filósofo da história, a crença em valores absolutos como obsoletos bem como, enquanto filósofo da ética, o convencimento sobre a aleatoriedade relativista-cultural na valoração moral da ação humana. De uma tal valoração aparece indicado reconstruir a ação adequadamente, ou seja, compreendê-la intencionalmente e explicá-la por meio da causalidade. No decorrer desse compreender e desse explicar, se deve fazer uma referência a isso que Stern com, entre outros, Blaise Pascal, (...) chama de “a condição humana” (la condition humaine): o fato de que o humano é um ser consciente de si mesmo, de que ele é determinado por uma vontade de autopreservação, de que ele ama e odeia, de que ele sofre, busca escapar do sofrimento, de que ele sabe de sua mortalidade e, por fim, morre. De maneira semelhante à anthropéia physis de Thukydides, essas condições variantes resultam decorrer de ação bem diferentes e padrões de comportamento, de acordo com as especificidades da situação histórica – parecido com como um balão sobe, sob o efeito da mesma lei da gravidade, uma pedra, entretanto, cai ao chão. Seguindo essa construção compreensivo-explicativa da ação, vêm a sua valoração moral. Esta é, com Stein, guiada pelo princípio da liberdade como de um ser-livre de pressão e pelo princípio da maior minimização possível do sofrimento humano. (shrink)No categories
- Spatial Experience and SpecialRelativity.Brian Cutter -2017 -Philosophical Studies 174 (9):2297-2313.In recent work, David Chalmers argues that “Edenic shapes”—roughly, the shape properties phenomenally presented in spatial experience—are not instantiated in our world. His reasons come largely from the theory of SpecialRelativity. Although Edenic shapes might have been instantiated in a classical Newtonian world, he maintains that they could not be instantiated in a relativistic world like our own. In this essay, I defend realism about Edenic shape, the thesis that Edenic shapes are instantiated in our world, against Chalmers’s (...) challenge from SpecialRelativity. I begin by clarifying the notion of an Edenic shape by reference to Chalmers’s notion of the “Edenic” content of perceptual experience. I then reconstruct Chalmers’s argument that Edenic shapes could not be instantiated in a relativistic world. His reasoning proceeds from two assumptions. The first is that the only shape properties instantiated in a relativistic world are those which somehow involve relations to frames of reference. This is thought to follow from the phenomenon of Lorentz contraction, a consequence of SpecialRelativity. The second assumption is that Edenic shapes do not involve relations to frames of reference. One reason to accept the second assumption is that it seems that Edenic shapes could be instantiated in a classical Newtonian world, where the notion of a frame-relative shape has no meaningful application. I then proceed to defend RES against Chalmers’s argument by arguing that SpecialRelativity, properly understood, provides no support for Chalmers’s first assumption. More generally, I argue, by way of a careful analysis of the geometric structure of Minkowski space–time and Galilean space–time Newtonian physics), that Edenic shapes are no less at home in a relativistic world than in a classical Newtonian world. (shrink)
- Relativity and the spatiality of mental events.Robert Weingard -1977 -Philosophical Studies 31 (4):279 - 284.
- (1 other version)MoralRelativity and Intuitionism.Walter Sinnott-Armstrong -2002 -Philosophical Issues 12 (1):305-328.
- Scientific Realism and OntologicalRelativity.Anjan Chakravartty -2011 -The Monist 94 (2):157-180.Scientific realism has three dimensions: a metaphysical commitment to the existence of a mind-independent world; a semantic commitment to a literal interpretation of scientific claims; and an epistemological commitment to scientific knowledge of both observable and unobservable entities. The semantic dimension is uncontroversial, and the epistemological dimension, though contested, is well articulated in a number of ways. The metaphysical dimension, however, is not even well articulated. In this paper, I elaborate a plausible understanding of mind independence for the realist – (...) plausible in conceding the force of sceptical arguments to the effect that there is no one correct way to carve nature at its joints, but realist in proposing an objective basis for carving nonetheless. Walking this line between implausible realism and full-blown constructivism leads down the path of three forms of relativism or pluralism: one concerning the ways in which scientists “package” properties into entities; another concerning the precise metaphysical natures of these entities; and another concerning the contextrelativity of their behaviour. (shrink)
- PerceptualRelativity.Christopher S. Hill -2016 -Philosophical Topics 44 (2):179-200.Visual experience is shaped by a number of factors that are independent of the external objects that we perceive—factors like lighting, angle of view, and the sensitivities of photoreceptors in the retina. This paper seeks to catalog, analyze, and explain the fluctuations in visual phenomenology that are due to such factors.
- Change in Hamiltonian generalrelativity from the lack of a time-like Killing vector field.J. Brian Pitts -2014 -Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 47:68-89.In GeneralRelativity in Hamiltonian form, change has seemed to be missing, defined only asymptotically, or otherwise obscured at best, because the Hamiltonian is a sum of first-class constraints and a boundary term and thus supposedly generates gauge transformations. Attention to the gauge generator G of Rosenfeld, Anderson, Bergmann, Castellani et al., a specially _tuned sum_ of first-class constraints, facilitates seeing that a solitary first-class constraint in fact generates not a gauge transformation, but a bad physical change in electromagnetism (...) or GeneralRelativity. The change spoils the Lagrangian constraints, Gauss's law or the Gauss-Codazzi relations describing embedding of space into space-time, in terms of the physically relevant velocities rather than auxiliary canonical momenta. But the resemblance between the gauge generator G and the Hamiltonian H leaves still unclear where objective change is in GR. Insistence on Hamiltonian-Lagrangian equivalence, a theme emphasized by Castellani, Sugano, Pons, Salisbury, Shepley and Sundermeyer among others, holds the key. Taking objective change to be ineliminable time dependence, one recalls that there is change in vacuum GR just in case there is no time-like vector field xi^a satisfying Killing's equation L_xi g_mn=0, because then there exists no coordinate system such that everything is independent of time. Throwing away the spatial dependence of GR for convenience, one finds explicitly that the time evolution from Hamilton's equations is real change just when there is no time-like Killing vector. The inclusion of a massive scalar field is simple. No obstruction is expected in including spatial dependence and coupling more general matter fields. Hence change is real and local even in the Hamiltonian formalism. The considerations here resolve the Earman-Maudlin standoff over change in Hamiltonian GeneralRelativity: the Hamiltonian formalism is helpful, and, suitably reformed, it does not have absurd consequences for change and observables. Hence the classical problem of time is resolved. The Lagrangian-equivalent Hamiltonian analysis of change in GeneralRelativity is compared to Belot and Earman's treatment. The more serious quantum problem of time, however, is not automatically resolved due to issues of quantum constraint imposition. (shrink)
- Relativity and Geometry.Michael Friedman -1984 -Noûs 18 (4):653-664.No categories
- The Problem of Time: Quantum Mechanics Versus GeneralRelativity.Edward Anderson -2017 - Cham: Imprint: Springer.This book is a treatise on time and on background independence in physics. It first considers how time is conceived of in each accepted paradigm of physics: Newtonian, specialrelativity, quantum mechanics (QM) and generalrelativity (GR). Substantial differences are moreover uncovered between what is meant by time in QM and in GR. These differences jointly source the Problem of Time: Nine interlinked facets which arise upon attempting concurrent treatment of the QM and GR paradigms, as is required (...) in particular for a background independent theory of quantum gravity. A sizeable proportion of current quantum gravity programs - e.g. geometrodynamical and loop quantum gravity approaches to quantum GR, quantum cosmology, supergravity and M-theory - are background independent in this sense. This book's foundational topic is thus furthermore of practical relevance in the ongoing development of quantum gravity programs. This book shows moreover that eight of the nine facets of the Problem of Time already occur upon entertaining background independence in classical (rather than quantum) physics. By this development, and interpreting shape theory as modelling background independence, this book further establishes background independence as a field of study. Background independent mechanics, as well as minisuperspace (spatially homogeneous) models of GR and perturbations thereabout are used to illustrate these points. As hitherto formulated, the different facets of the Problem of Time greatly interfere with each others' attempted resolutions. This book explains how, none the less, a local resolution of the Problem of Time can be arrived at after various reconceptualizations of the facets and reformulations of their mathematical implementation. Self-contained appendices on mathematical methods for basic and foundational quantum gravity are included. Finally, this book outlines how supergravity is refreshingly different from GR as a realization of background independence, and what background independence entails at the topological level and beyond. (shrink)
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