This is the homepage for PL 2094 - Space and Spacetime - Fall Semester 2008, NYU-Poly.  Choose from the selection below.  This page will be updated periodically.
 

• Syllabus
• Study questions
• Paper topics
• Paper#1
• Paper#2
• Paper#3
  
• Paper guidelines
• Links
• "Unfinished Revolution" (introdutory remarks on spacetime and quantum gravity by Carlo Rovelli)
  
• 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"
• "Quantum Gravity"