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The Dynamical Approach as Practical Geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Syman Stevens
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Abstract

This article introduces Harvey Brown and Oliver Pooley’s ‘dynamical approach’ to special relativity, and argues that it may be construed as a relationalist form of Einstein’s ‘practical geometry’. This construal of the dynamical approach is shown to be compatible with related chapters of Brown’s text and also with recent descriptions of the dynamical approach by Pooley and others.

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Space-Time Physics
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 82 , Issue 5 , December 2015 , pp. 1152 - 1162
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Thanks are due to Neil Dewar and Thomas Møller-Nielsen for helpful comments on an earlier draft. Special thanks are also due to Oliver Pooley, Christopher Timpson, and Harvey Brown for their guidance in the larger project from which this article emerged.

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