Space, Time and Causality Royal Institute of Philosophy Conferences
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SYNTHESE LIBRARY
STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Managing Editor: JAAKKO HINTlKKA, Florida State University
Editors: DON ALD DAVIDSON, University of Chicago GABRIEL NUCHELMANS, University of Leyden WESLEY C. SALMON, University of Pittsburgh
VOLUME 157
ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCES VOLUME 1981
SPACE, TIME AND CAUSALITY Edited by
RICHARD SWINBURNE Department of Philosophy, University of Keele, Keele, Staffordshire
D. REIDEL PUBLISHING COMPANY DORDRECHT : HOLLAND / BOSTON: U.S.A. LONDON: ENGLAND
library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Space, time, and causality. (Synthese library; v. 157) 'The papers in this volume are revised versions of papers read to a conference at the University of Keele in September 1981, sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy'-Pref. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Space and time-Congresses. 2. Causation-Congresses. I. Swinburne, Richard. II. Royal Institute of Philosophy. BD632.S63 1982 110 82-18123 ISBN-13: 978-94-009-6968-1 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-009-6966-7 DO I: 10.1007/978-94-009-6966-7 Published by D. Reidel Publishing Company, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, Holland. Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Boston Inc., 190 Old Derby Street, Hingham, MA 02043, U.S.A. In all other countries, sold and distributed by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, Holland. D. Reidel Publishing Company is a member of the Kluwer Group.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD
vii
PREFACE
ix
INTRODUCTION
xi
ABSOLUTE VERSUS RELATIVE SPACE AND TIME J. L. MACKIE
I Three Steps Towards Absolutism
JON DORLING ELiE ZAHAR
I Reply to Mackie
I Absoluteness and Conspiracy
3 23
37
TIME AND CAUSAL CONNECTIBILITY LA WRENCE SKLAR I Prospects for a Causal Theory of Space-Time
45
RICHARD SWINBURNE I Verificationism and Theories of Space-Time
63
TEMPORAL AND CAUSAL ASYMMETRY RICHARD A. HEALEY I Temporal and Causal Asymmetry
79
W. H. NEWTON-SMITH I Temporal and Causal Asymmetry
105
CAUSALITY AND QUANTUM MECHANICS NANCY CARTWRIGHT I How the Measurement Problem Is an Arti-
fact of the Mathematics JEREMY BUTTERFIELD I Measurement, Unitarity, and Laws
125 135
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CAUSALITY, RELATIVITY, AND THE EINSTEIN-PODOLSKY-ROSEN PARADOX MICHAEL REDHEAD I Nonlocality and Peaceful Coexistence
151
PETER GIBBINS I Quantum Logic and Ensembles
191
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
207
INDEX OF NAMES
209
FOREWORD
The Royal Institute of Philosophy has been sponsoring conferences in alternate years since 1969. These have from the start been intended to
