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86Bell's Spaceships Problem and the Foundations of Special RelativityInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 25 (4): 351-370. 2011.Recent ?dynamical? approaches to relativity by Harvey Brown and his colleagues have used John Bell's own solution to a problem in relativity which has in the past sometimes been called ?Bell's spaceships paradox?, in a central way. This paper examines solutions to this problem in greater detail and from a broader philosophical perspective than Brown et al. offer. It also analyses the well-known analogy between special relativity and classical thermodynamics. This analysis leads to the sceptical …Read more
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Philosophy of Physical Science |