This is the homepage for PL2273 - Space and Spacetime - Fall Semester 2013, NYU-Poly.  Choose from the selection below.  This page will be updated periodically.
 

• Syllabus
• Lecture Slides
• 01. Introduction
• 02. Plato
• 03. Euclid
• 04. Zeno
• 05. Aristotle
• 06. Aristotelian Tradition
• 07. Descartes 
• 08. Newton
• 09. The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence
• 10. Berkeley & Mach
• 11. Spacetime
• 12. Kant and Handedness
• 13. Kant and Geometry
• 14. Poincare
• 15. Minkowski Spacetime
• 16. General Relativsitic Spacetimes
• 17. Quantum Gravity and Spacetime
  
• Study questions
• 01. Plato and Euclid
• 02. Zeno and Aristotle
• 03. Descartes and Newton
• 04. Leibniz-Clarke and Berkeley & Mach
• 05. Kant
• 06. Poincare
• 07. Einstein
  
• Paper topics
• Paper guidelines
• Links
• Relevant articles in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• "Plato's Timaeus"
  
• "Space and Time:  Inertial Frames"
• "Absolute and Relational Theories of Space and Motion"
• "Descartes' Physics"
• "Newton's Views on Space, Time, and Motion"
• "The Hole Argument"
• "Zeno's Paradoxes"
• "Conventionality of Simultaneity"