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Einstein Was Not a Flat Physicalist: Principle Theories, Constructive Theories, and the Direction of Constraint
Galina Weinstein
Einstein's distinction between principle theories and constructive theories is methodological rather than metaphysical. Principle theories such as thermodynamics and relativity art…
From Drag to Invariance: The Experimental Pressure Behind Special Relativity
Galina Weinstein
This paper completes a three-part study of Einstein's 1905 special relativity by reconstructing the experimental pressures that shaped his thinking from 1895 to June 1905. Followin…
Comment on "Comment on Galina Weinstein's article entitled 'Convergences and Divergences: Einstein Poincaré and Special Relativity' "
Galina Weinstein
This paper provides a systematic response to the criticisms raised by Jean-Marc Ginoux in response to my review of his book on the history of relativity. Whereas my review was writ…
Lorentz, Poincaré, and Einstein: Rethinking Doppler, Aberration, and the Fresnel Drag
Galina Weinstein
This paper examines Lorentz's 1895 derivations of the classical Doppler formula and Fresnel drag, Einstein's 1905 derivation of the relativistic Doppler effect and aberration, and…
Convergences and Divergences: Einstein, Poincaré, and Special Relativity
Galina Weinstein
Jean-Marc Ginoux's recent book, "Poincaré, Einstein and the Discovery of Special Relativity: An End to the Controversy" (2024), seeks to close the debate over the respective roles…
Einstein's Hidden Scaffolding, with a Glance at Poincaré
Galina Weinstein
This paper reconstructs the derivations underlying the kinematical part of Einstein's 1905 special relativity paper, emphasizing their operational clarity and minimalist use of mat…
How One Quiet Man Became Everyone's Sage: The Spiritual Recasting of Einstein
Galina Weinstein
This paper critically examines the central thesis of Kieran Fox's "I Am a Part of Infinity: The Spiritual Journey of Albert Einstein"-namely, that Einstein's intellectual developme…
Einstein, Free Creations, and His Worldly Cloister
Galina Weinstein
This paper examines "Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein" by Diana Kormos Buchwald and Michael D. Gordin. The authors seek to dispel the long-standing m…
Einstein, Evolution of Knowledge, and the Anthropocene: A Critical Reading of Jürgen Renn's Historiography
Galina Weinstein
This article offers a critical engagement with Jürgen Renn's historiographical approach, with particular focus on "The Evolution of Knowledge" and "The Einsteinian Revolution" (co-…
A comprehensive survey of Schwarzschild's original papers: Schwarzschild's trick and Einstein's s(h)tick
Galina Weinstein
This paper examines Schwarzschild's key contributions to general relativity through his two papers. It focuses on his method for developing exterior and interior solutions. The stu…
Was Einstein a Lone Genius?
Galina Weinstein
Albert Einstein's journey to formulate the theory of general relativity involved significant shifts in his approach to gravitational field equations. Starting in 1912, he collabora…
Navigating the Conjectural Labyrinth of the Black Hole Information Paradox
Galina Weinstein
This paper explores the enduring black hole information and firewall paradoxes, challenges that have prompted many proposals, conjectures, and theories. Noteworthy among these are…
Reframing the Event Horizon: The Harlow-Hayden Computational Approach to the Firewall Paradox
Galina Weinstein
This study critically reevaluates the Harlow-Hayden (HH) solution to the black hole information paradox and its articulation in the firewall paradox. The exploration recognizes the…