paper

Classical Spacetime Structure

arXiv:1707.05887

Abstract

I discuss several issues related to "classical" spacetime structure. I review Galilean, Newtonian, and Leibnizian spacetimes, and briefly describe more recent developments. The target audience is undergraduates and early graduate students in philosophy; the presentation avoids mathematical formalism as much as possible.

20 pages, 3 figures. Prepared for the Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics, edited by Eleanor Knox and Alastair Wilson