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39Einstein's clocks, Poincaré's maps; Empires of timeStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 36 (1): 202-210. 2005.
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17The theory of relativityIn R. C. Olby, G. N. Cantor, J. R. R. Christie & M. J. S. Hodge (eds.), Companion to the History of Modern Science, Routledge. pp. 442--56. 1990.
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6‘A Man of my Type’—Editing the Einstein PapersBritish Journal for the History of Science 20 (1): 57-66. 1987.Towards the end of the career of many a distinguished scientist, or shortly after his or her death, an edition of the scientist's articles is published under the title: ‘The Collected Papers of…’. While not wishing to slight either the ceremonial importance or real utility of such collections, they must be clearly distinguished from the sort of editions on which the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein is modelled. The former are primarily intended to make the published papers of a great scientis…Read more
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26This intertwining of projective, affine, conformal and pseudo-metrical 255In Robert S. Cohen & Larry Laudan (eds.), Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Essays in Honor of Adolf Grünbaum, D. Reidel. pp. 255. 1983.
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8Potentiality, Entanglement, and Passion-at-a-Distance: Quantum Mechanical Studies for Abner Shimony (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1997.Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance is a book for theoretical physicists and philosophers of modern physics. It treats a puzzling and provocative aspect of recent quantum physics: the apparent interaction of certain physical events that cannot share any causal connection. These are said to be `entangled' in some way, but an explanation remains elusive. Abner Shimony - to whom the book is dedicated - and others suggest the need to revive the category of what may be seen as a meta…Read more
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From Peripheral Mathematics to a New Theory of GravitationBoston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 250 1041-1129. 2007.
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Einstein and HilbertIn Ana Simões, Jürgen Renn & Theodore Arabatzis (eds.), Relocating the History of Science: Essays in Honor of Kostas Gavroglu, Springer Verlag. 2015.
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35The Rise and Fall of GeometrodynamicsPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1972. 1972.
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15Special relativity from measuring rodsIn Robert S. Cohen & Larry Laudan (eds.), Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Essays in Honor of Adolf Grünbaum, D. Reidel. pp. 255--272. 1983.
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90O manuscrito de Einstein de 1912 como pista para o desenvolvimento da teoria da relatividade restritaScientiae Studia 3 (4): 583-596. 2005.
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30Einstein's 1912 manuscript as a clue to the development of special relativityScientiae Studia 3 (4): 583-596. 2005.
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26Bohr and the PhotonIn Wayne C. Myrvold & Joy Christian (eds.), Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle, Springer. pp. 69--83. 2009.
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28The 'Logic' of 'Quantum Logic'PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1974. 1974.
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16In three volumes, a distinguished group of scholars from a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the humanities and the arts contribute essays in honor of Robert S. Cohen, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The range of the essays, as well as their originality, and their critical and historical depth, pay tribute to the extraordinary scope of Professor Cohen's intellectual interests, as a scientist-philosopher and a humanist, and also to his engagement in the world of soc…Read more
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Review Articles-The Dawning of Gauge TheoryStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 30 (3): 453. 1999.
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139The relations between things' versus 'the things between relations': The deeper meaning of the hole argumentIn David B. Malament (ed.), Reading Natural Philosophy: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science and Mathematics, Open Court. pp. 231--66. 2002.
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84In the paper I wish to begin to explore the consequences for metaphysics of thinking that a good physical theory should be background-independent. More generally I want to ask whether the conception of time not as a background but as an active component of the physical universe has any significant consequences for metaphysics. I think that a natural conception of space and time is to regard them as a (possibly infinite) container or stage for the events that make up the history of the universe. …Read more
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52Poincaré and the Origins of Special RelativityHopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 6 (2): 242-256. 2016.After introductory surveys of Poincaré’s role in the Dreyfus case and of his “Fourth Geometry,” I turn to the main question. The problem confronting both Poincaré and Einstein was how to reconcile the phenomena of electrodynamics, notably the optical principle of relativity, with the principles of Newtonian mechanics. I show that, on such questions as the existence and role of the ether and the relation between kinematics and dynamics, Poincaré and Einstein held diametrically opposed views. Poin…Read more
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