Philosophy of Physics

Philosophical issues about space and time -- from the early modern period to the present. Some of the issues covered include: substantivalism vs. relationism, incongruent counterparts, spacetime symmetries, apriori knowledge, non-Euclidean geometry, conventionalism, and general covariance. Readings are drawn from Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, Kant, Poincare, Reichenbach, Earman, and Belot, among others.