Tutorial Reading List
Newton's Scholium
Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, trans. A. Motte, Scholium to the Definitions.
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Descartes (1644), ``Principles of Philosophy'' in
The Philosophical Writings of
Descartes translated by Cottingham, Stoothoff and Murdoch (CUP 1985).
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Rynasiewicz, Robert (1995). `By Their Properties, Causes and Effects: Newton's Scholium on Time, Space, Place and Motion--I. The Text.' Studies In History and Philosophy of Science 26: 133-153.
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Rynasiewicz, Robert (1995). `By Their Properties, Causes and Effects: Newton's Scholium on Time, Space, Place and Motion--II. The Context.' Studies In History and Philosophy of Science 26: 295-321.
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Relational versus substantival space
Teller, Paul (1991). `Substance, Relations, and Arguments about the Nature of Space-Time', The Philosophical Review 100: 363-397.
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Horwich, Paul (1978). `On the Existence of Time, Space and Space-Time', Noûs 12: 397-419.
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Sklar, Lawrence (1972). `Absolute Space and the Metaphysics of Theories', Noûs 6: 289-309.
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Forbes, Graeme (1987). `Places as Possibilities of Location', Noûs 21: 295-318.
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Khamara, Edward (1993). `Leibniz' Theory of Space: A Reconstruction', Philosophical Quarterly 43: 472-488.
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Earman, John (1970). `Space-Time, or How to Solve Philosophical Problems and Dissolve Philosophical Muddles without Really Trying', The Journal of Philosophy 67: 259-277.
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The Identity of Indiscernibles
Black, Max (1952). `The Identity of Indiscernibles', Mind 61: 153-164.
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Feldman, Fred (1970). `Leibniz and "Leibniz' Law"', The Philosophical Review 79: 510-522.
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Chernoff, Fred (1981). `Leibniz's Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles', Philosophical Quarterly 31: 126-138.
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Hacking, Ian (1975). `The Identity of Indiscernibles', The Journal of Philosophy 72: 249-256.
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Adams, R. M. (1979). `Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity', The Journal of Philosophy 76: 5-26.
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French, Steven (1995). `Hacking Away at the Identity of Indiscernibles: Possible Worlds and Einstein's Principle of Equivalence', The Journal of Philosophy 92: 455-466.
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Relational approaches to dynamics
Barbour, J. B., and Bertotti, B. (1982). `Mach's Principle and the Structure of Dynamical Theories', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences 382: 295--306.
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